The
playful imagination and thoughtful introspection of the late artist, Adam
Greene, will be on display at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Edna
Carlsten Gallery beginning Saturday, Feb. 13.
“Owner
and Operations Manager at Akron and Macon: The Works of Adam Greene” is a
collection of photographs, video, installation images, paintings and collages
made throughout Greene’s life. Friends gifted with pieces have brought them
together in the first public display of his art. Greene died in 2013.
A
reception will be held at the gallery in the Noel Fine Arts Center Saturday,
Feb. 20, from 2-4 p.m. The display will continue through Sunday, March 6. The
event and exhibit are free and open to the public.
“The
exhibition reveals a creative, kind, witty individual who had a major impact on
many people’s lives through his personal connections and his art,” said Leslie
Walfish, curator of the Carlsten Gallery.
Gallery
visitors are invited to leave personal memories or thoughts about the artist as
part of the exhibition. A friend of Greene’s, Sousan Arafeh, shared that Adam’s
work was and is very much about social commentary.
"I
believe that Adam saw the world quite differently from others,” Arafeh said.
“As a result, he combined and cobbled it uniquely – a tinkerer and inventor of
absurd-but-perceptive points. I think Adam saw and thought things I could not
see and think. For me, some of his art plays that way.”
A
longtime resident of Madison, Greene earned degrees from the University of
Massachusetts, the California Institute of the Arts and Mason Gross School of
the Arts at Rutgers University.
Free and open
to the public, UW-Stevens Point’s Carlsten Gallery is open Monday through
Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Thursday evenings from 7–9 p.m. and on
Saturday and Sunday from 1–4 p.m. For more information, see www.uwsp.edu/art-design/Pages/Exhibitions/carlsten.aspx.
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