Earlier Work by Alan Green
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Alan Green
Monoprints 1999-2000
Paintings 2001-2002
19 September
- 19 October 2002
From 19th Sepember 2002, Annely Juda Fine Art will
be showing new paintings and prints by Alan Green.
This selection of recent paintings and monoprints by Alan Green indicates
a dramatic new evolution in his work. Moving away from the previous use
of linear bands and blocks of colour GreenŐs new works exploit the use
of circular shapes or discs. The size and placement of the discs on the
picture plane is determined by their role within the composition: sometimes
stabilising, sometimes agents of activity advancing towards each other
in groups or breaking out beyond the confines of the picture field.
This new development, as Alan Green explains in his introduction to the
exhibition catalogue, arose from his work on monoprints that he made between
late 1999 and 2000 of which 24 are exhibited. The introduction of collage
elements and the exposure of underlying layers through surface perforation
led to the disc paintings. With characteristic and pronounced use of texture
the paintings are built up in multiple layers with the discs sometimes
sitting proud on the surface and sometimes formed by omissions in the
paint revealing the differing layers beneath. Green forms the paintings
with the aid of acetate stencils hand-made without geometric implements.
The effect contributes to the powerful sense of organic tactility so prevalent
in his work.
Alan Green was born in London in 1932 and has a long association with
Annely Juda Fine Art having had his first exhibition here in 1970. He
has had one-man exhibitions throughout Europe, Japan and the United States
including Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany and Tate Gallery, London. His
work was exhibited at Documenta VI, Kassel, in 1977 and examples of his
prints and paintings are held in major public collections worldwide, notably
Tate Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Solomon R Guggenheim
Museum, New York.
This exhibition offers an exciting opportunity to see his new work and
to understand the interrelation between his printing and painting techniques.
A
fully illustrated 36 page catalogue is available
click here to
read Alan Green's biography
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