Salim Green's "Missy" is a textile piece dominated by earthy browns and muted yellows, with hints of blue, creating a textured, layered effect. The composition is framed by bold, dark borders resembling an abstract landscape or an obscured window. The artistic style leans towards abstraction with a focus on texture and depth, employing textile techniques that highlight materiality. Rooted in the “Dark Forest Theory,” Green’s work speaks to themes of concealment and visibility, exploring Black existence through nuanced and intimate means, inviting viewers to contemplate notions of opacity and survival. ...
Drawing inspiration from the “Dark Forest Theory,” which suggests that civilizations remain hidden to avoid conflict, Salim Green’s practice explores themes of concealment, visibility, and opacity. Adapting this idea, Green investigates relational dynamics and Black existence through acts of strategic withdrawal, emphasizing unknowability, interiority, and survival. His projects often take the form of interconnected nodes scattered across various locations, each contributing to a larger discourse that is accessed incompletely and discreetly. This approach challenges traditional notions of exhibition and display, offering varied, hyper-contextual points of communication that invite viewers to connect language to image, medium, and place. Green's work operates on an assumption that an exhibition or a display of art cannot be read as a complete statement for a general audience. Instead, his project offers varied, hyper-contextual points of communication, asking viewers within and outside of art spaces to connect language to image, medium, and place, and to experience how “both hiding and evangelizing” can produce public discourse. ...
Since 2009, François Ghebaly has presented an innovative, eclectic program of Los Angeles-based and international artists. With a history of identifying and championing diverse voices and emerging talent, the gallery’s roster has grown to include 27 artists and 2 artist estates, ranging from early career, such as Sharif Farrag and Ludovic Nkoth, to mid-career, like Christine Sun Kim, Meriem Bennani, Kelly Akashi, Farah Al Qasimi, and Genesis Belanger, to well established, including Sayre Gomez, Kathleen Ryan, Neïl Beloufa and Candice Lin as well as underground legends, like Patrick Jackson and Mike Kuchar. The gallery advances the reach of its artists’ visions by publishing exhibition catalogues and producing artist editions. Located since 2013 in a 12,000 square foot warehouse space in Downtown Los Angeles, the gallery is a mainstay of the burgeoning Arts District community, and recently expanded to New York's Lower East Side. François Ghebaly’s program demonstrates a commitment to challenging work across all media and to fostering the progressive, boundary-pushing practices of its artists. ...
