DENISE GREEN: THE HEIDE COLLECTION 8 April – 18 June 2017 Heide II Curator: Linda Michael This exhibition celebrates artist Denise Green’s generous gift to Heide of paintings and drawings representing her work over four decades. Born in Brisbane in 1946, she has lived in New York since 1969, and maintains regular contact with Australia. Green’s intuitive style synthesises a variety of experiences and influences. In her formative years she studied under Mark Rothko and in 1974 saw Joseph Beuys’ famous three-day performance with a live coyote. The work of both artists was important to her development, as were the Groote Eylandt bark paintings she saw first as a child at the Queensland Museum. Art and ideas encountered in her extensive travels have also informed her work, and her life has intersected with remarkable political moments—from studying art in Paris during the volatile period of civil unrest in 1968, to witnessing the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center from her Manhattan studio. For much of her career Green has worked in series, each of which presents multiple variations on a theme. She aims to paint in a way that is ‘seamless with a state of mind’ so that she can give expressive shape to inner states, integrating inner and outer worlds, or spiritual and material realms. The earliest works in the exhibition, from 1977–78, depict a single object centrally placed within a square abstract field. Her inclusion of figurative elements aligned her with a generation of artists who reacted against the pure abstract painting that dominated American art in the 1960s and early 1970s. The forms in these early works are characteristically simple and archetypal: a tree, a vessel, a needle. In a subsequent series of asymmetrical abstractions, her art registers the influence of postmodern thought. Its fragmented notations became integrated into a loosened geometric vocabulary of quadrants, squares and circles in the 1980s, until figurative elements returned from the late 1990s. By the 2000s, Green’s early vessel shapes had reappeared, as enduring and familiar elements in visual fields transformed by her experience of 9/11. The vertical stripes that entered her work after that event are echoed in recent photo-montages which also have trauma at their heart.
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DENISE GREEN: THE HEIDE COLLECTION
8 April – 18 June 2017 Heide II Curator: Linda Michael
This exhibition celebrates artist Denise Green’s generous gift to Heide of paintings and drawings representing her work over four decades. Born in Brisbane in 1946, she has lived in New York since 1969, and maintains regular contact with Australia.
Green’s intuitive style synthesises a variety of experiences and influences. In her formative years she studied under Mark Rothko and in 1974 saw Joseph Beuys’ famous three-day performance with a live coyote. The work of both artists was important to her development, as were the Groote Eylandt bark paintings she saw first as a child at the Queensland Museum. Art and ideas encountered in her extensive travels have also informed her work, and her life has intersected with remarkable political moments—from studying art in Paris during the volatile period of civil unrest in 1968, to witnessing the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center from her Manhattan studio.
For much of her career Green has worked in series, each of which presents multiple variations on a theme. She aims to paint in a way that is ‘seamless with a state of mind’ so that she can give expressive
shape to inner states, integrating inner and outer worlds, or spiritual and material realms.
The earliest works in the exhibition, from 1977–78, depict a single object centrally placed within a square abstract field. Her inclusion of figurative elements aligned her with a generation of artists who reacted against the pure abstract painting that dominated American art in the 1960s and early 1970s.
The forms in these early works are characteristically simple and archetypal: a tree, a vessel, a needle. In a subsequent series of asymmetrical abstractions, her art registers the influence of postmodern thought. Its fragmented notations became integrated into a loosened geometric vocabulary of quadrants, squares and circles in the 1980s, until figurative elements returned from the late 1990s.
By the 2000s, Green’s early vessel shapes had reappeared, as enduring and familiar elements in visual fields transformed by her experience of 9/11. The vertical stripes that entered her work after that event are echoed in recent photo-montages which also have trauma at their heart.
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Denise Greenborn 1946 Melbourne; New York City, NY, USA from 1972
Buoy 1976ink on paper28 x 28 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Rooted 1976ink on paper22 x 28.3 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Sculpture 1976ink on paper31.5 x 31.5 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
#4 Curfew 1977ink on paper26.3 x 27 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
#10 Curfew 1977ink on paper26.6 x 28.2 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Needle 1977oil on canvas152 x 152 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Red Curfew 1977synthetic polymer paint and masking tape on paper54 x 55 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
#1 For All and None 1978charcoal and pastel on paper44 x 45.5 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
#3 For All and None 1978charcoal and pastel on paper44.5 x 45.5 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
LIST OF WORKS This catalogue is arranged chronologically then alphabetically by title. Measurements are height before width before depth.
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Pend/ance #1 1978oil stick on graph paper43 x 44.3 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Vertical Edge 1978watercolour and pastel on paper58.5 x 47 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Disperse #3 1979oil on canvas152 x 152 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Reflected Light #5 1979ink on grid paper39.7 x 52.5 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Time Afloat 1979oil stick on graph paper43 x 43 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Conversion #6 1981oil stick on graph paper43 x 43.7 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Frontline 1985oil on canvas122 x 137 cmThe Baillieu Myer Collection of the ‘80s
Love Song #1 1986oil stick on paper24.3 x 35.3 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Spring and All #1 1986oil stick on paper24 x 34.4 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Spring and All #11 1986oil stick on paper25 x 35.5 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
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Spring and All #19 1986oil stick on paper24 x 34.5 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
a Concha 1988oil and paint stick on canvas167 x 167 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Imperfect Square 1989watercolour on paper27 x 21.5 cm (irreg.)Gift of Denise Green 2017
Palma 1989watercolour on paper26.4 x 21.4 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Marinara 1990watercolour on paper25.5 x 21 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Keyboard 1991oil on canvas178 x 188 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
T’song 1991watercolour on paper27.4 x 23.4 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Atrium, from the Black and White Series 1992watercolour on paper28 x 20.7 cm (irreg.)Gift of Denise Green 2017
Bone White, from the Black and White Series 1992watercolour on paper27 x 21 cm (irreg.)Gift of Denise Green 2017
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Crest of Arms, from the Black and White Series 1992watercolour on paper28 x 22.5 cm (irreg.)Gift of Denise Green 2017
La Voiture, from the Black and White Series 1993watercolour on paper27.4 x 22.5 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Level, from the Black and White Series 1993watercolour on paper28.5 x 22.8 cm (irreg.)Gift of Denise Green 2017
More and More, from the Black and White Series 1993watercolour on paper26.5 x 22.3 cm (irreg.)Gift of Denise Green 2017
Julianne ‘Hers’ #13 1997ink, watercolour and wax crayon on paper27 x 22.7 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Julianne ‘Hers’ #14 1997ink, watercolour and wax crayon on paper27 x 22 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
September 1977 1997ink, watercolour and wax crayon on paper28 x 22.5 cm (irreg.)Gift of Denise Green 2017
Nero #4 1998synthetic polymer paint on canvas36 x 36 cmGift of Robin Bade and Michael Parkin 2001
Umbria #8 1998synthetic polymer paint on canvas36 x 36 cmGift of Robin Bade and Michael Parkin 2001
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Chapel Rose 2001synthetic polymer paint on canvas167 x 167 cmGift of Robin Bade and Michael Parkin 2001
#9 Roma 2002ink and watercolour on paper27 x 90 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
#11 Kleve 2002ink, watercolour and airbrush acrylic on paper27 x 65 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Kleve Vert 2002ink, watercolour and airbrush acrylic on paper27.7 x 63.5 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Kleve with Window 2002ink, watercolour and airbrush acrylic on paper27.5 x 59.5 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Casper #5 2003watercolour and airbrush acrylic on paper22.3 x 74.5 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Evening 2010coloured pencil and conte crayon on coloured paper26.5 x 47 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
For David O’Connell 2010coloured pencil and conte crayon on coloured paper26 x 47 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Rose (Heide) 2010coloured pencil and conte crayon on coloured paper25 x 47.5 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Sand 2010coloured pencil and conte crayon on coloured paper26.7 x 45.9 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
Living in the Shadow 2011synthetic polymer paint on canvas157 x 229 cmCourtesy of the artist
RJG: Italian POW - Long Long Trail Variant 1 2016one photograph and three drawings44 x 58.3 cmCourtesy of the artist
RJG: Sister Street - Building Coming Down 2016one photograph and three drawings
Sand 2010coloured pencil and conte crayon on coloured paper26.7 x 45.9 cmGift of Denise Green 2017
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