Art Green in his Toronto studio at work on “Allowable Deduction,” 1976. (photo by Natalie Green /Estate of Art Green/ Garth Greenan Gallery; courtesy of Art Forum)
Painter and professor Art Green has died April 14, aged 83.
Born in Frankfort, Indiana, Green was known for his paintings, which blended Pop and Surrealism. One of the group of artists known as the Hairy Who, he was initially influenced by Abstract Impressionism but became interested in Surrealism after seeing the work of René Magritte and Giorgio de Chirico. “I aspired to make paintings that were awkward and monstrous, boring and familiar,” he once wrote.
A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Green began teaching as soon as he graduated, working as a professor at Chicago City College, Kendall College of Art and Design, and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He began teaching at the University of Waterloo in Stratford, Ont. in 1977, retiring as professor emeritus in 2006.
A major retrospective of his work was shown at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in 2005, and his work is in collections around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Gallery and the Dalhousie University Art Gallery.
Source: ArtForum
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