Culinary Patterns: Kira Nam Greene is supported in part by Jason J. Kim Oral Design Center and through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
The exhibit is currently at BBCN Bank, 16 West 32nd Street, New York NY 10001 from October 14, 2015 – April 12, 2016
As described on her website, "Kira Nam Greene’s paintings and drawings negotiate the duality and dichotomy of her existence as an Asian immigrant woman in America. As an outsider, Greene is more aware of the contradictions in the plurality of cultures in the present American society. As a feminist, she is repulsed and demoralized by the objectification of female bodies in art history and popular culture, yet she finds herself strongly attracted to sensuality of these images. This paradox has led her to combine the rigidity of patterns with the imagery of desire in the female body. In her most recent work, she replaces the body with the images of lusciously styled food while heightening the complexity with the mixture of patterns and icons derived from various Western and Eastern sources. The food, both in harmony and clash with its surroundings, is the body (literally and metaphorically) and the surrogate for desire to consume and control."
Learn more about the artist by clicking on Kira Nam Greene's website HERE.
