Kira Nam Greene

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MELUS Cover Art

April 8, 2018

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MELUS Cover Art

My painting Lychee Cocktail will be featured on the cover of the Multi-Ethinic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Journal.

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    Kira Nam GreeneKira Nam Greene’s work explores female sexuality, desire and control through figure and food still-life paintings, surrounded by complex patterns. Imbuing the feminist legacies of Pattern and Decoration Movement with transnational, multicultural motifs, Greene creates colorful paintings that are unique combinations of realism and abstraction, employing diverse media such as oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolor and colored pencil. Combining Pop Art tropes and transnationalism, she also examines the politics of food through the depiction of brand name food products, or junk food. Recently, Greene started a figurative painting series spurred by the 2016 Presidential Election, Women’s March, #metoo movement and ensuing crisis of conscience, this new body of work aspires to present the power of collective action by women.
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    #outwin2022 is on view now in Chapel Hill, NC @ack #outwin2022 is on view now in Chapel Hill, NC @ackland_art_museum  Thank you @smithsoniannpg @ackland_art_museum @playacreciente @mossdorothy for amazing exhibitions. And always ❤️❤️❤️🙏🏼 to my friend @kyungjeon who posed for me. 
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    Gorgeous @sarahfairchildstudio show @contemporarya Gorgeous @sarahfairchildstudio show @contemporaryartmatters ❤️ Love the colors, textures and details.
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    Also being shown @montgomerymfa ! European Splendo Also being shown @montgomerymfa ! European Splendors: Old Master Paintings from the Kress Collection with some stunning paintings by #Tintoretto and #NicolasMaes. And also not to be missed are these amazing artworks from 4th graders, who reinterpreted famous paintings! #montgomerymuseumoffinearts #masterpieces #oldmasterpaintings #portraiture
    Thank you very much @montgomerymfa @mlausfeld for Thank you very much @montgomerymfa @mlausfeld for the amazing opening of the exhibition Present Tense. It is an honor to be able to show my work in a city with such a diverse community and long civil rights movement history. Thank you Jennifer Jankauskas, Emily Sears @photoem4 @savannahshaon and the entire museum staff for mounting a fabulous looking exhibition. And @pamela_rausch @foamenthusiast and David for coming with me to celebrate. The exhibition is in conjunction with European Splendor: old Master Paintings from the Kress Collection. 

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    Thank you everyone for wishing me happy birthday. Thank you everyone for wishing me happy birthday. It’s amazing to make another trip around the sun and be able to do what I love everyday. Here is another self portrait that is being shown at my solo show @contemporaryartmatters right now. In this painting, I imagined myself as a mudang, a Korean shaman who employs magic to effect cures, to tell fortunes, to soothe spirits of the dead and to repulse evil. I was hoping that art might have the same effects and I could be a channel. And I sometimes do feel like a whirling dervish trying to juggle all the new ideas and wanted to reflect that as well.  The solo show runs until 10/16. Hope you will be able to see this painting in person if you’re in Columbus. 

Kira Nam Greene, 2023, A Room of My Own (mudang), oil, gouache, watercolor, colored pencil and acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40 in

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    Looking forward to the opening this Sunday 7/9 6-8 Looking forward to the opening this Sunday 7/9 6-8pm @fivemyles and celebrating #asianish! @asianish2018

Kira Nam Greene, 2016, Spam, Spam, Egg, Spam, Rice, and Spam, detail
watercolor, gouache, and pigment pen on paper mounted on panel
45 x 30 inches (114 x 76 cm)

Posted @withregram • @fivemyles Join us for the Opening Reception of Gathering this Sunday! July 9, 5:30-8pm. Gathering, co-curated by Cecile Chong @cecilestudio and Sophia Ma @soph.ma features the work of 33 artists, all members of Asianish, a community of artists and art professionals of varying Asian identities. Chanel Matsunami Govreau will perform her 12-minute “Tether Us” at Sunday’s opening, starting at 6:30pm @queengidrea “Tether Us” explores beauty ritual and physical transformation as a community wellness practice in queer communities.
Come and hang out and see some great art!

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    Custom gold frame for one of my commission portrai Custom gold frame for one of my commission portraits. Never seen my painting in a gilded frame. Hmmmm. What do you think?

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Loving the pattern and movement in this hand carved, gold leaf frame for this beautiful @kiranamgreene painting on canvas. This is a portrait of one of our favorite clients and it really captures her energy, surrounded by items from her home that mean the most to her!

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    Reunion with @margaridacorreiaphoto and @alisonok Reunion with @margaridacorreiaphoto and @alisonok in NYC! @svamfafinearts #longfriendship 

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    So proud of @foamenthusiast working on this amazin So proud of @foamenthusiast working on this amazing documentary about David Hammons @themeltfilm , opening @filmforumnyc this weekend. Friday is sold out, but tickets still left on Saturday and Sunday. 

Screening will be followed by Q&A with the directors @judd.tully @haroldcrooks1 and special guests @chavisawoods_author @suzannejackson7268 

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    A new beginning in the new studio. 🥰🙏🏼 . A new beginning in the new studio. 🥰🙏🏼
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    The new studio is more or less tamed. The garden, The new studio is more or less tamed. The garden, not so much yet. 😲 Looking forward to working from the home studio again and enjoying the beautiful light! 💝
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