About
Kira 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.
Tag Archives: LES
Fall Art Season Begins: Socrates Sculpture Park and Lower East Side
The art season began in earnest last Sunday with an opening at the Socrates Sculpture Park’s annual Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition and a block party on Orchard Street and many coordinated openings at many of the Lower East Side (LES) … Continue reading
Group Exhibition in Lower East Side
I am participating in an interesting group exhibition in Lower East Side of New York City this summer. Please come by when you are in the area. For Which It Stands Opening Reception: Friday, June 28, 6-9pm Open from June … Continue reading
April Gallery Roundup in Lower East Side
There were some interesting shows in Lower East Side galleries this months, and as usual the work somehow seems to relate to one another in the art world’s continuing obsession with minimalism. Here are some of the noteworthy exhibitions that … Continue reading
February Gallery Roundup
It’s time to come out of the winter hibernation (even though it has not been bad this winter), and see some art! 🙂 Here is my roundup of some of the interesting exhibitions going on in Chelsea and Lower Eastside. … Continue reading
Restaurant Review: Fat Radish
I have a new favorite restaurant in Manhattan in Lower East Side called Fat Radish. I have been going to this restaurant every few weeks since they opened on Orchard Street about a year ago. The space is tight but attractive … Continue reading