Nathan Randall Green: Three Directions

Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to present Three Directions, a solo show of paintings by Nathan Randall Green. The exhibition continues Green’s visual exploration of the cosmos and its extraordinary immensity. The vibrant, geometric paintings are created on organic shapes full of surface texture, and they speak to Green’s desire to measure, map, and chart our physical world with precise geometric lines, creating a sense of both compression and expansion. Green aims to impart a sense of expansive wonder and awe into his work. The exhibition’s title, Three Directions, is a reference to the artist’s conceptual practice of looking out, up, and down. He attempts to look outside of himself with an objective eye, then up to the grandeur of the cosmos, and then finally back down to the earth and his life. This process mirrors art-making, which requires this constant shift in perspective, culminating in the job of looking down at the artwork in the act of creation. Three Directions also alludes to the trinity of the past, present, and future and their relative relationships when stargazing. The artist has long been building his painting surfaces that he shapes into amorphous, organic forms. He applies a mixture of paper pulp and gesso to the canvas to create an irregular, textured surface onto which he applies flat, graphic, diagrammatic imagery. The work builds on his past practice, which has been slowly evolving over fifteen years. His paintings are an idiosyncratic act of measuring, mapping, and making sense of our universe and its immensity. In creating the work, Green hopes to imbue in others the same awestruck delight of contemplating the vastness of the world which we inhabit.