Art Green

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 formal effects such as hatching and a combination of flat and undulating planes of colour to unsettle the viewer. He also played with compositional elements, spatial relationships and techniques like trompe l'oeil to symbolically question the viewer’s complicity in the themes that he depicted.