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Kira Nam Greene

Kira Nam Greene is active/lives in New York.  Kira Greene is known for Ethnology, portraiture, transnational cultural, feminist themes, teaching.

ARTIST STATEMENT  2022

My new painting series, Tribal Council, develops the ethnographic tendency of my practice that I previously explored in still-life compositions, and am now extending to portraiture. The subjects are women in creative fields, posed to echo historical figurative paintings. Interviews and research into their working lives generate ways for me to render pictorially—through allusions, icons, objects, patterns, and symbols—the rich personhood of my subjects. I depict the human figure in a meticulous realist style at the center of the compositions, surrounding them with design elements from widely dispersed cultures as a testament to the deep history of transnational cultural exchanges.

Imbuing the feminist example of the Pattern and Decoration Movement with recurring, multicultural motifs, I create heterogeneous, colorful, and exactingly detailed paintings using varied techniques—exposed under-drawings, hyper-realism, hard-edged abstract elements, t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6422 characters.]  Artist bio

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