D E N I S E
G R E E N
paintings, drawings, photographs
Sundaram Tagore Gallery January 8 – February 21, 2015
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Stillness, 2014 Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 48 x 84 inches
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Anchor and Blue Subjectivity, 2014 Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches each
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Playing with Stillness, 2014 Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 31 x 54 inches
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In Dialogue with Stillness, 2014 Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 36 x 63 inches
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States of Feeling, 2014 Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 48 x 68 inches
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The Saar (and Subjectivity) Section #4, 2014 One work on paper; one photograph, 84 x 95 inches
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The Saar (and Subjectivity) Section #2, 2014 One work on paper; two photographs, 84 x 145 inches
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Saar Elegy: Loop, 2014 Three works on paper; one photograph, 29.5 x 74 inches
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Saar Elegy: From Above, 2014 Three works on paper; one photograph, 29.5 x 74 inches
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Trans-Form, 2013 Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 48 x 68 inches
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Independence, 2014 Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 66 x 88 inches
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Into Stillness, 2014 Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 46.5 x 51.5 inches
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Bendigo: Fields of Subjectivity, 2014 One photograph; seven drawings, 19.75 x 43.75 inches
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King Island, 2014 One photograph; nine drawings, 17 x 30 inches
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Ardennes Uncovered: Memory, 2014 One photograph; seven drawings, 10.75 x 23.75 inches
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Ardennes Uncovered: Loss, 2014 One photograph; four drawings, 13.14 x 20.75 inches
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Appease, 2014 Watercolor and charcoal on paper, 44.75 x 36.25 inches
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Denise Green Statement for exhibition paintings, drawings and photographs This exhibition includes eight paintings and eight mixed media works combining photographs and drawings of various sizes. Some of the ideas in the new paintings evolved from previous explorations, such as my 2011 Augsburg exhibition. This includes the fan shape and the geometry. The new energy in the paintings is derived from large-scale drawings that I made over this last year. During this period I was drawn to the idea that representational photographs and abstract drawings, while opposites, can play off each other in an equal way. From the beginning of my practice I have used a referential image in my work and have developed it as an archetypal or abstracted image rather than a descriptive one. My paintings embody an imaginative world made up of abstracted images. Over the last year, however, through the inclusion of representational photographs and abstract drawings, I have arrived at a whole new approach to my work. The proposal for an installation for a museum in Australia required a fifteen-foot high photograph, which then dictated a fifteen-foot high drawing. This is what started me on the course of juxtaposing both small-scale and large-scale photographs and drawings. For my exhibition at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery I have included five seven-foot high photographs and drawings. The scale of the drawings is related to the scale of the photographs, but the energy that went into the mark making comes from intense and personal feelings.This new shift in approach then translated into the paintings. There are two additional points to make about this new approach. Some of the photographs are appropriated images and aspects of them are altered and digitally manipulated from their original sources. Some were made based on my instructions and others I personally made, but essentially each of them has an important subjective meaning to me. Most importantly, the drawings were not made as a response to the photographs. In fact, many were not even made with the photographic image in mind. Furthermore, the drawings emerge from a different state of mind than the photographs and because of the emotional power of the drawings, they engage with the photographs in a way that neither is dominant.
Denise Green Abridged Curriculum Vitae* Born 1946, Melbourne, Australia. Lives and works in New York Awarded Order of Australia, 2007 Education École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1966-69 Université Paris-Sorbonne, 1969 Hunter College, New York, M.F.A., 1976 Selected One-Person Exhibitions 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2003 2001 2000-2001 2000
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NKN Gallery, Melbourne Australian Club, Melbourne ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY Galerie Cora & Daniela Hölzl, Düsseldorf Block Projects, Melbourne Andrew Baker Art Dealers, Brisbane Arc One Gallery, Melbourne Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney Galerie Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf TarraWarra Museum, Melbourne Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney Galerie Heike Curtze, Berlin Galerie Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna Annandale Galleries, Sydney Schubert Galleries, Main Beach, Queensland Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest Stadthaus Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1999-2000 MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT 1999 Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen 1998-2000 Wollongong City Gallery (touring show), Wollongong 1997 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 1995 Peter Bellas Gallery, Brisbane 1994 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Raab Galerie, Berlin 1992 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 1991 Delaney Galleries, Perth Peter Bellas Gallery, Brisbane Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 1989 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 1988 University Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, NY Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 1987 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ahmedabad, India Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, NY Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 1986 Anand Sarabhai Studio, Ahmedabad, India Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 1985 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 1984 Ville de Liege Musée d’Art Moderne, Liege, Belgium 1983 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Gallery A, Sydney 1982 Axiom Gallery, Melbourne 1981 The Clocktower, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, NY Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 1980 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY Protetch-Mcintosh Gallery, Washington, DC Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1978 Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY 1977 Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Max Protetch Gallery, Washington, DC Coventry Gallery, Sydney 1976 Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY 1975 Whitney Museum Art Resources Center, New York, NY Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 1973 98 Greene Street, New York, NY
Selected Museum Group Exhibitions 2013 2010 2007 2006 2004 2001 1998 1997 1996 1994 1993 1992 1990 1989 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1978 1977 1974 1972
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David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI Richard J. Massey Foundation for Arts and Sciences, New York, NY Curtin University of Technology, Perth Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany Illinois State University, Normal, IL Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, Sydney Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong (touring show) MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Aspen Museum, Aspen, CO Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney New England Regional Art Museum, Armadale (touring show) Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan UQ Art Museum, Brisbane MoMA P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY Edith Blum Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Centre International d’Experimentation Artistique Jeanneret, Boissano, Italy Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC MoMA PS1, New York, NY UQ Art Museum, Brisbane Brown University, Providence, RI Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes-Barre, PA Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC Portland Center for Visual Arts, Portland, OR Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY
Selected Public Collections Albertina Museum, Vienna Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI Department of State, Washington, DC Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden Heide Museum of Contemporary Art, Melbourne Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth Kunstsammlungen und Museen Stadt Augsburg, Germany Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI MIT, Whitehead Institute, Boston, MA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales Parliament House, Canberra Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane QUT Art Museum, Brisbane Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Stadthaus Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane Writings Books Denise Green: An Artist’s Odyssey, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012; Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishers, 2012. Metonymy in Contemporary Art: A New Paradigm, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006; Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishers, 2005. Published Essays “Subjectivity and Artistic Intent,” Asian Art News, (January/February 2014). “Map of Groote Eylandt,” Art & Australia, Vol. 35, No. 2 (1998): 200. “Painting Post-Greenberg,” Art Monthly Australia, (March 1996): 20-23. “Painterly Thought and the Unconscious,” Art Press, Paris, (February 1994): E1-E5 & pp. 20-24. “In the Galleries and Museums,” Arts, New York, (Summer 1971, Nov. 1971, Feb. 1972, Mar. 1972, Apr.1972, May 1972, Dec./Jan. 1972) (under name of Denise Wolmer). *This is an abridged CV of solo exhibitions, museum group shows and Green’s writings about art.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition DENISE GREEN paintings, drawings, photographs January 8 – February 21, 2015 Sundaram Tagore Gallery 547 West 27 Street New York, NY 10001 + 212 677 4520 www.sundaramtagore.com Publication and Design: Janelle Lynch with assistance from Wilson Duggan Photography: © Josh Nefsky Printing: Oddi Printing Corporation, Reykjavik, Iceland Cover: Independence (detail), 2014, acrylic and pencil on canvas, 66 x 88 inches All works © Denise Green Denise Green would like to thank: Sundaram Tagore Janelle Lynch Alan Roland Russell Whitehead The staff at Sundaram Tagore Gallery Wilson Duggan Josh Nefsky Elissa Sadgrove Warren Green Laura Westby Gerard Franciosa and Andrew Carlson at My Own Color Lab Francis Claps
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