Hue Value Saturation: Sean Greene

November 12 – December 10 2024

Sean Greene was born in San Francisco in 1972, and from age 7, raised in Connecticut and Vermont. He moved to New York City in 1992, and received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in 1996. In 1998 Sean moved to Massachusetts and earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2004, where he was awarded a three year teaching associateship. Sean exhibits his art on a regular basis. In 2014 he was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, and has also received grants from the Somerville and Northampton Arts Councils and the Artists Resource Trust. His work is in private collections in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and France, as well as the corporate collection of Neiman Marcus, and the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Amherst.

From the artist's statement: "I paint without trying to imitate the visual world outside of the studio, but that world inspires how I work with color on a surface. I respond to color. It can move me as forcibly as a musical melody, and opens a door to my sense of human-ness. With a focus on color relationships, much of the work that I am doing takes place on the palette where I mix intervals of shifting hues, values and saturation (the three attributes of color). I apply the paint in a very direct way, avoiding any flourish, sense of decoration or virtuosity, because I want to keep the experience of the color relationships as prominent as possible. The way I am painting is the result of removing as many obstacles and distractions of process as possible, so that I can more easily access an open mental-emotional state. The noises of my mind go quiet, and the possibility of discovery becomes elevated."