Adam Green Art Opening THURSDAY @ The Hole, Manhattan

[Chloe Walsh]

[cid:5FB75C07-6610-4926-BF12-869028040C1E at hq.pressherepublicity.com]After a very successful exhibition at Dustin Yellin’s Intercourse Gallery earlier this summer, artist and musician Adam Green has been asked to show his works at the prestigious NYC gallery The Hole with his paintings, sculptures and a showing of his feature-length film The Wrong Ferrari.

The opening night party is this Thursday from 6-9PM. These new pieces are incredible - please let me know if you would like to come as my guest.

HOUSEFACE
An Exhibition of New Works by Adam Green
Opening Reception:
Thursday, August 16, 2012
6-9PM

THE HOLE
312 Bowery
New York, NY 10012
212-466-1100

ADAM GREEN
Houseface
August 16 - 25, 2012
OPENING August 16, 7-9PM


The Hole is proud to announce an end of summer exhibition by artist and musician Adam Green. Green will fill the galleries with painting, sculpture, and his feature-length film The Wrong Ferrari screened on continuous loop in Gallery 3.

In this exhibition, Green explores a reduction of cartoon imagery into modular sections and the evocative potential of their recombination. The works evoke the explorations of De Stijl and Mondrian crossed with the expressionism of his contemporaries like Joe Bradley, Ben Jones or André Butzer. Green's architectural inspirations range from Gaudí to Hundertwasser and many paintings specifically reference high density housing, water towers and airports.


I liked something because it reminded me of something else - by Adam Green

I remember liking a Mondrian painting because it reminded me of a Monopoly board.  There was a sentimentality in making this association which made me feel good. One of my favorite possessions as a child was a cat pendulum-clock.  I remember placing special importance on its life-like characteristics.  To this day when cleaning out my house I find that figurines - in fact any construction with faces or eyes - are hard to dispose of.  We are myth-based and seek out ourselves in abstraction.  We find faces in our coffee and we look for ourselves even in architecture and design.

In this exhibit I’ve dismantled three cherished cartoon characters and simplified their components.  I’ve reduced their essences to formal cubic cells.  The transformation is extreme and we are left only with the subtle reminder of them,  just enough to allow our sentimentality to poke through.  It is in this final reduced form that these components can be used most effectively in architecture and design. Because we share a common history loving these cartoon characters, and because their design has proven effective, we can now incorporate them further into our own myth. Through the currents of these sentimental reminders and our natural predisposition towards animism, my new work seeks to capture a more life-affirming and ultimately less-disposable system of design.
The works presented are paintings, drawings, and sculptures.  The line-quality varies in the designs ranging from fairly straight to an expressive style where the straight line is the enemy.

Initially inspired by Neoplasticism, video-game graphics and Persian tapestries, my instinct was to reduce these symbols into building blocks and to place them on a grid.

Many of the designs are set upon a planar grid.  Adhering to the horizontal and vertical laws of the grid - and with their evocation of eyes and mouths - they represent a fusion of the Neoplastic and animist ideologies.


Adam Green is a world-recognized musician who in recent years has begun to exhibit his artworks, most recently at Dustin Yellin’s new space in Red Hook, Brooklyn called The Intercourse. He has also shown at Galleri Loyal in Malmo and the Morrison Hotel in NYC. This exhibition is accompanied by an artist-made book in an edition of 50. For all inquiries please contact kathy at theholenyc.com<mailto:kathy at theholenyc.com>



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