Kira Nam Greene

Peanut Butter, Saba and Ketchup

Bamboo Forest

Fig Heaven

Dragonball K

Kimchi Joy

A message to all my fellow New Yorkers, GO and see the amazing Kira Greene exhibition at the ACCOLA GRIEFEN GALLERY open Tuesday through Saturday from 11am to 6pm. 547 West 27th St #634. The wonderful and amazing Anette Millington took my 2D class to meet the artist in person and listen to an intimate discussion of her work. After just completing a my William Morris inspired acrylic pattern painting I wish I could have started the whole process again, she has such an intricate delicacy with her painting style, patterns overlap each other with transparency, and the detail is outstanding.

Her paintings, drawing and custom wallpaper incorporate food and patters, which are transitional in origin. Appropriating from bothWestern and Eastern sources, the artist refers, in part, to her position as a Korean immigrant woman in America. Making use of victual for their relationship to the body, Greene depicts fleshy bowls of kimchi, gelatinous mounds of jello and luscious ripe cherries. The food, both in harmony and discordance with its surroundings, becomes a surrogate for the desire to consume and/or control. She uses a range of materials such as watercolor, colored pencil, gouache, acrylic ink and rhinestones.

Born in South Korea, Kira Nam Greene lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from the school of Visual Arts.