In just a few months after joining the UHart community, Hartford Art School faculty Andrae Green has already made an impact both on campus and beyond. Green, who serves as assistant professor of painting, shared a number of current projects that he is involved in within the wider community, including exhibitions (both solo and group), public programs, panel discussions, and more.
Highlights include:
Green’s painting Divers IV is part of the group show, Root/Signal, held at the Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State University. Curated by Caitlin Hurd and Melanie Vote, it explores how roots, plants, and currents remind us of our deep connections to the living world. The exhibition runs through Nov. 7.
In Boston, Green currently has a solo exhibition, Paradise/Mash-Up. The exhibition is held at the BCA Mills Gallery, 551 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02116, and runs through Nov. 8. The show has had recent press, including reviews from Jonathan Bonfiglio (The Arts Fuse) and Cate McQuaid. Equally as exciting as the accolades, the gallery offered up a family-friendly public program inspired by Green’s practice, where participants could explore memory and identity through collage.
Finally, Green will be participating in a group exhibition, HyperColor, held at Taber Art Gallery, Holyoke Community College. The exhibition will open Nov. 3 and runs through Dec. 18. On Nov. 13, from 5 p.m.–7 p.m., there is a reception and panel discussion with Green, Sunny Allis, Kim Carlino, Donnabelle Casis, Sharon Leshner, who will discuss the role of color in contemporary art.
ABOUT ANDRAE GREEN
Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Green joined HAS from Mount Holyoke College, as visiting assistant professor of Art Studio. His seven years of experience also includes teaching at MassArt Springfield Technical Community College, New England College, UMass Amherst, Westfield State, and the University of Technology in Kingston, Jamaica. With support of the Chase Fund Jamaica scholarship, he earned a BFA from Edna Manley College of Visual & Performing Arts and an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art.
Andrae’s self-described “holographic” figurative paintings explore the Black male experience through lenses of the African diaspora, family, economic hardship, and speculative fiction, with a focus on cultural resilience. They have been featured through his representation of Jamaica at the Beijing Biennale five times and his representation of the United States at the Salon de Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. His exhibition venues include Diane Rosenstein Gallery, LA, the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA, Southampton Arts Center New York, the National Gallery of Jamaica, Maddox Gallery in Los Angeles, William Baczek Fine Art Gallery, and numerous universities.