Courtesy of the artist and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Art Green
Born in 1941, Chicago, United States
Lives and works in Stratford, United States
Overview
As one of the Chicago Imagists – whose distinctive, vibrant and graphic style used a collision of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking – Art Green’s paintings combined pop art and its engagement with advertising and material culture with a mid-20th Century technicolour reimagining of surrealism. Green collected materials such as postcards, magazine advertisements and commercial signage, pulling from a broad range of cultural and socio-political references, and used forma...Read more