Eric Green
August 2 – 31, 2019
In editing this issue, the unifying factor will be defined by my decisions I need to make to meet the challenge I face in selecting from what will be a large catalog of works submitted in a variety of mediums. I know the resulting publication, print or digital, will be gorgeous because I have already seen just how talented this group is. I do not want you to make something you think will fit, I want to see what you know is uniquely you. As for me, I will quote SupremeCourt Justice Potter Stewart; “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description, and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it.”
- Jan Anders Nelson
Eric Green’s work is currently featured in a group exhibition at Bernarducci Meisel Gallery titled “Size Doesn’t Matter”. The exhibition is a survey of small works curated by Susan P. Meisel and will run through April 29, 2017. It includes three of Eric Green’s Mirrored Room series.
Eric Green was recently interviewed by Jan Anders Nelson on his blog, Artist Interrupted. In an answer to the question by Nelsen, “Why do you do what you do?” Green says, “I suppose I was compelled because of being overwhelmed by the poetry of being alive. I wanted to show others what I felt and saw.”
Eric Green’s paintings were featured in the Winter issue of The Gettysburg Review.
Green’s work, “Pole” 1994, Acrylic on panel 34″ x 56″ can be seen here on the cover.
Featured on The Paris Review Blog: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/04/25/time-diptychs-mirrored-rooms/.
Eric Green’s current show of Time Diptychs was reviewed in the Penobscot Bay Pilot.
“The concept of a diptych of two images joined to make one is a very old concept,” said Green. “The way I balance the two images is to show changes from one panel to the other, because when you really begin to understand life, everything changes completely all the time. Nothing is ever the same again.”
We are pleased to announce, Eric Green of Belfast, Maine is now represented by Dowling Walsh Gallery. Eric will have a solo show at the gallery in 2014. Eric Green received a full scholarship from RISD at the age of sixteen. After attending the school for a week, he left to ride freights across the country, spending four years on the road. In the years since, he has become accomplished author and artist.
“My intent with the birds is to portray them formally, as if they were 19th century portraits and the birds wanted to look their best. I also pay attention to the expression to bring out a personality. As I learned from human portraits, if the eyes are drawn a bit larger than life, it gives a more meaningful look. The birds can be seen as guardians of an unspoiled world; I invent the backgrounds, which all interconnect through their horizons, and exclude anything man-made.”
Eric Green was born in Gorham, New Hampshire in 1956. Green was offered a full scholarship to the RISD at the age of sixteen. After attending the school for a week, he left to ride freights across the country, spending four years on the road.
In addition to painting for thirty years, he has worked in a frame shop, assembled pulp testers, traveled with a carnival, restored houses, painted industrial buildings from a hanging scaffold, designed two labels for Brazilian beers, written six novels, five books of poems, and a syndicated award-winning column for five Maine papers.
Green has had several solo exhibitions, including those at: Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, Maine; Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, NY; Gallery Henoch, New York, NY; and Haley and Steele, Boston, MA. Upcoming solo show at Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Binghamton, NY.
Recent group exhibitions include: “Small Works,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; Portland Museum Biennial, Portland, ME; “Realism in 20th Century American Painting,” Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME; “171st Annual Exhibition,” National Academy of Design, New York, NY; Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, Vermont; Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont: and the Portland Museum. “Art from the Driver’s Seat: Americans and Their Cars,” curated by Cara Sutherland. Traveling to: Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington MA; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois State University, Charleston, IL; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN; Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; and Galerie Bernard DesRoches, Montreal, Quebec.
Green is the recipient of the National Academy of Design Merit Award and three Vermont Council Arts Fellowships.
Eric Green lives and works in Belfast, ME.
"In the end, Eric Green is really a stunning blend of his own intuitions, his own struggles, and his own triumphs. We can ask no more of a contemporary artist, at the same time wondering why so few of them – exhibiting this kind of basal aesthetic integrity – grace our galleries today."
—Gerrit Henry, art critic for Art News, Art in America, The New York Times, etc.
"I admired your paintings very much; some of them are quite extraordinary and none are ordinary. You have a real talent and you are working hard and thinking hard, and more power to you."
—John Updike, author of Rabbit Run, and double Pulitzer Prize winner
