Steve Green
Glimpses and samples of Aztec sun worship, the occult, pagan ritual, Native American totem and folkloric decoration are present in the sculptural work of Steve Green as he plunders the belief systems of metaphysical shapes and objects. However, his use of sleek, highly polished acrylic and glossy petro-chemical colour, is loaded with the surface and design elements of the sign, freed from direct signification, to instead connote a more general mysticism. A resolution from the realms of ‘New Generation’ abstraction, of appropriated forms from abandoned minimalist trajectories. Green attempts to communicate without absolute, relying on an interpretation that objects hold certain transcendental properties to more receptive onlookers.
A 2003 graduate from The Slade School of Art MFA Steve Green exhibited in ‘Continuous Movement of ideas’, Gallarie Nicolas Silin, Paris, and ‘By chromed hooves it travels now’, The Russian Club, London in 2010. His work was included in ‘70 plus’, Volume Project space, London 2009 and ‘Nothing like something happens anywhere’, Rum 26, Gothenburg, 2008
