Nathan Randall Green was born in Houston, Texas, and received his B.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a founding member and partner of Okay Mountain Gallery and Collective in Austin and was a Curator of Education at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Most recently his work has been exhibited at the Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, TX, Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York, Walter Storms Gallery in Munich, Qualia Contemporary in Palo Alto, and SPRING / BREAK in New York. He has exhibited works in the Austin Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Dallas Contemporary and participated in Artist-In-Residence programs in Connecticut, New York, Vermont, Michigan, Illinois, and Dallas. Nathan has painted murals domestically and abroad and currently lives and works in The Bronx.
Artist Statement:
I create richly colored works that contemplate the grandeur and scale of the universe. Through the process of intuitive painterly abstraction, I offer representations of the exquisite and ethereal nature of our universe to create tangible, curiously evocative works.
I approach painting with a distinctly tactile approach by building irregularly shaped, rounded panels rich with surface texture. By applying successive layers of graphic, geometric imagery on top of highly textured surfaces, I collide the illusionary space of a painting with its own objecthood. The paintings are scraped, sanded and patched, weathered with the history of their making. In building my pictorial language, I use simple, recognizable symbols such as crescents, radiant lines, and solar symbols to describe and celebrate complex cosmological ideas.
The resulting paintings function not as schematic diagrams or illustrations but rather a searching meditation on cosmological and theoretical ideas that are an eternal source of my awe.