Open Air: Artist Talk with Myra Greene

Join our upcoming virtual talk with renowned artist, Myra Greene, to understand her distinct and moving creative process. Works from her Mixed and Piecework series are featured in the current exhibition, South Arts 2021 Southern Prize & State Fellows. She is the 2021 South Arts Georgia State Fellow.

Greene is currently working on a new body of work that uses African textiles as a material and pattern as well as color as medium to explore her own relationship to culture.

Gilda Williams on Myra Greene, Artforum, May/June 2020 –

"Greene’s art, which in the past has often centered on photography, addresses labor, color, race, and history. She excels at creating works that allow loaded materials and historically color-coded associations to intersect, that demonstrate the ways in which contingencies shape the perception of color, and that generate new meanings."

Open Air is a monthly series of virtual studio visits and intimate conversations with Black contemporary artists across the United States. Join us monthly as we celebrate a featured artist in one of our latest exhibitions.

Myra Greene's work is in the permanent collection of Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Her work has been featured in national exhibitions in galleries and museums including The New York Public Library, Duke Center for Documentary Studies, Williams College Museum of Art, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, and Sculpture Center in New York City. Greene was born in New York City and received her B.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and her M.F.A. in photography from the University of New Mexico. She is a Professor of Photography and the Chair of the Department of Art & Visual Culture at Spelman College. She is represented by Patron Gallery in Chicago, and Corvi-Mora in London.

Myra Greene, Piecework #37, 2019. Hand-dyed and screen-printed textile, 47 x 40 inches. On loan courtesy of the artist.

Dexter Wimberly is an independent curator and entrepreneur who has organized exhibitions and developed programs with galleries and institutions throughout the world including The Third Line in Dubai; Contemporary Art Museum CAM Raleigh in North Carolina; The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco; Koki Arts in Tokyo; and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. His exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in publications including The New York Times, Artforum, and Hyperallergic; and have received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Wimberly has also served as Director of Strategic Planning at Independent Curators International in New York City.

Prior to his curatorial career, Wimberly was the managing partner and CEO of the advertising agency, August Bishop, representing a diverse array of clients, including Adidas, The Coca-Cola Company and, HBO. Wimberly is a Senior Critic at New York Academy of Art. He is also the founder of ART WORLD CONFERENCE, a business and financial literacy conference for visual artists. He and ART WORLD CONFERENCE co-organizer, Heather Bhandari were recently listed in the Observer's "Arts Power 50: Changemakers Shaping the Art World in 2019.”