John D. Greene

For John Greene, painting is about paint. Color, texture, the joy of putting it on or scraping it off. The results are best served by keen and repeated viewing. Primarily, his work is about surface, which he sees as feeling – it can be ambivalent. It gives the illusion of depth and reflection, of time and memory and complexity. Preferring imagined sites rather than actual landscapes, he incorporates crossroads, paths taken or not taken, suggestions and intimations of the past and the future. Materials that age, rust, decay and change are for him the elements of birth and survival. He is a visual explorer. Looking at his work, one senses both acute subjective invention, and a strong synthesis of twentieth century conceptual concerns: a well-balanced journey between intellect and intuition.