Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present new mixed media works by Megan Greene.June 2, 2011 - June 26, 2011
Join us for a closing reception on Saturday, June 25, 4-7 PM.
1086 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario
Megan Greene's current body of work includes drawings/collages built using Audubon bird prints. She is interested in "Birds of America" as canonical Americana, a 19th c. documentary series she re-conceives with contemporary concerns. In each piece, she scraps the Audubon for parts, transforming the found organic forms with colored pencil and collage. These transformations, borrowing from the tradition of the grotesque, involve the disassembly, elaboration, and subsuming of birds and their environs with pattern, abstract forms and found imagery. In some works, the Audubon forms are gently elaborated while in others the bird is dissolved entirely. Megan also uses collage as a Dada-like force that is alternately seamless and disruptive. Such treatment of surface, including shifts between drawn v. photographic and representational v. abstract, further reflect her interest in hybridization.
Megan Greene's current body of work includes drawings/collages built using Audubon bird prints. She is interested in "Birds of America" as canonical Americana, a 19th c. documentary series she re-conceives with contemporary concerns. In each piece, she scraps the Audubon for parts, transforming the found organic forms with colored pencil and collage. These transformations, borrowing from the tradition of the grotesque, involve the disassembly, elaboration, and subsuming of birds and their environs with pattern, abstract forms and found imagery. In some works, the Audubon forms are gently elaborated while in others the bird is dissolved entirely. Megan also uses collage as a Dada-like force that is alternately seamless and disruptive. Such treatment of surface, including shifts between drawn v. photographic and representational v. abstract, further reflect her interest in hybridization.
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