Exhibition runs: Friday August 14, 2009 - September 5, 2009
Exhibition hours: Wednesday and Thursday from 1 to 5 p.m. The gallery will be open by appointment only Friday and Saturday until September 9, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, August 14, 2009 from 7pm to 9pm
Washington, DC-based artist Tom Green has exhibited work in multiple museums, galleries and universities throughout the region since 1968. A prolific painter and draftsmen, Green’s symbolic, poignant and powerful imagery has influenced and inspired artists for decades.
Points of View, Green’s first exhibition with Civilian, displays excerpts from six unique series of artwork. The series "Day Forms" derives from imagery that the artist has been working with for many years. Another series of biomorphic acrylics are “like looking into a busy aquarium. These images, through a variety of forms, colors and movement, seek to mimic life itself. I leave the background white to create a non-referential space where anything can happen and all things are possible.” Another series of new screen-prints of older imagery are “some favorite images that I wanted to preserve in multiple form.” "Night Windows,” black and white acrylic paintings, refer to openings through which we enter dreams.
Most recently Green’s work was included in by curator Vivienne Lassman in FORWARD MOTION X 4 at Momento Gallery in Washington, D.C. and the two-person exhibition GREEN/HANER at the Salve Regina Gallery at Catholic University. His work is in many public and private collections including that of the Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano in Lima, Peru, the D.C. Public Library, American University, Artery Organization, The Washington Post, and more. He received his M.A. and B.A. from the University of Maryland.
August 14 - September 5, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, August 14, 7-9pm
A prolific painter and draftsmen, DC-based artist Tom Green’s symbolic, poignant and powerful imagery has influenced and inspired artists for decades. Points of View, Green’s first exhibition with Civilian, displays excerpts from six unique series of artwork.
