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September 1 - October 14, 2006
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Opening Reception: First Friday, September 1, 5 - 7 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 6 pm
Painted Bride Cafe Gallery: 230 Vine Street, Phildelphia, PA
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In keeping with Greene's continued interest in visual observation, this exhibition presents two bodies of work that explore the sensual body, nature, and 19th century collections and typologies.
The series of prints entitled Infestation depicts sixteen men’s facial hairstyles taken from a Victorian typology. The images are drawn directly on a computer scanner using dead fruit flies. Isolated from the body and void of any facial features, the beards float freely in space and are left intentionally ambiguous. Initially the images appear abstract, but upon close examination, a practice very much rooted in all of Greene's work, the swarms of insects begin to reveal themselves and the individual hairstyles become recognizable. By placing emphasis on the absence of the physical body, the resulting images ask the viewer to contemplate the sensual body "- its growths and odors in particular", says Greene.
Also included in the exhibition are a group of prints from an ongoing series entitled Preservation/ Observation. In this series, Greene examines the relationship between observation and control. The prints, portraying dead spiders and other insect parts that have been taped down for observation, emphasize the vulnerability of the specimens at the hands of an anonymous cataloguer. Approaching her work with the precision of a forensic scientist, the prints have a straightforward quality to them, not unlike microscopic slides. Yet, in the process of taping the spiders, there is "a lack of sterility and precision in the way the bugs are preserved," suggesting a more visceral, less scientific approach to collecting and observing, and perhaps evoking a more visceral response from the viewer, as well.
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