Brad Greenwood “Star Maps”

La MaMa La Galleria

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La MaMa Galleria presents Star Maps, an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Brad Greenwood. This is the artist’s second solo show at La MaMa Galleria.

Greenwood’s work has long explored the impact of memories, masterworks, and popular culture on our visual vocabulary. With Star Maps, the artist re- imagines, or re-casts, the constellations to create a contemporary interpretation of the night sky – a more m!odern Milky Way.

In these large-scale paintings on panel, storm clouds of paint gather as figures emerge and recede in the night sky. Pinocchio looks to Lichtenstein’s Girl with Beach Ball, while the Land o’ Lakes maiden connects with Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. Hockney’s swimmer rises from the path of comets, while Vermeer’s “pearl earring” becomes a new North Star. Greenwood
weaves old masters and new age art stars together with the thread of Hollywood star obsession to create a brand new “Map to the Stars.”

Star Maps was first inspired by the story of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. A blackout caused by the quake made the night sky fully visible over Los Angeles, and hundreds of panicked 911 calls reporting strange activity in the sky were made by residents who had never seen the constellations.

Greenwood says, “This story stayed with me for years. Then, when I began working from a studio in the mountains of upstate New York, I had a similar experience…of seeing those same stars, brilliant and unobstructed, for the first time. Star Maps is my attempt to imagine how those ancient constellations would be interpreted if seen for the first time by our modern culture…to translate that ancient sky map from a new point of view.”

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Schedule

from October 28, 2015 to November 25, 2015

Opening Reception on 2015-10-28 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Brad Greenwood

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