The Green Gallery is excited to share new work by Mari Eastman for the 2023 edition of June Art Fair. Please join us June 12 - 18 at booth 07 at Riehenstrasse 90B 4058 Basel, Switzerland
The new paintings and drawings are a nod to fashion, popular culture and the personal. Eastman draws our attention to the allure found therein; the seductive surface of garments, the drifting gaze of a model, the cuteness of an animal, and escapist moments found in nature. These images are also intertwined with that of the artist’s life, where Eastman depicts her family and friends. This constellation of works seems to approximate the visual experience of the present, be it slowed for a moment by the choice in media.
Image appears by way of appropriation, where Eastman’s translation can be both clear and foggy. The viewer butts up against visual material that is immediately recognizable, and in other instances, address renderings that feel like a hazy memory. We are left to meandar within the interior of each artwork as well as build associations between different pieces exhibited. Although this process happens slowly, it seems to echo the experience of scrolling on screen or paging through a magazine. We are directed, redirected, asked to pause, pushed forward, and pulled back, in a visual conflation of the past and the current.
The Green Gallery has participated in June since its inception in 2019. June is a gallery-led international art fair and exhibition platform with open format. It was founded by galleries as an alternative, intergenerational, fair-week experience that welcomes a connoisseur and new audience alike.
A brief walk from Messeplatz, June takes place in an iconic concrete bunker that has been beautifully transformed into a gallery by Pritzker Prize winning architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron. Its modest scale and convenient location, in close proximity to Messeplatz and Art Basel, are notable attributes that make it a key destination during Basel Art Week.
2023 Participants
VI, VII, Oslo / Martin Sæther
4649, Tokyo / Shogo Shimizu
Belmacz, London / Abbas Zahedi
Christian Andersen, Copenhagen / Lina Viste Grønli
Efremidis, Berlin / Cécile Lempert, Tamar Magradze
Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam / Pauline Curnier Jardin and Simnikiwe Buhlungu
Et al., San Francisco / Emma cc Cook
Fabian Lang, Zurich / Kilian Rüthemann, Elena Alonso and Raphaël Zarka
Gaudel de Stampa, Paris / Gaia Vincensini, Hatice Pinarbasi
The Green Gallery, Milwaukee / Mari Eastman
Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo / Ryota Nojima, Nana Yokoi
La Cucina, Copenhagen / Asta Lynge, Jakob Ohrt, Mathias Toubro
Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles / Johannes Wohnseifer
Misako & Rosen, Tokyo / Reina Sugihara
Parisa Kind, Frankfurt / Charlotte Thrane
South Parade, London / Judith Dean
Tara Downs, New York / Tsai Yun-Ju
Ytre-Eide Art Advisory, Oslo / Doris Guo
Centralbanken, Oslo / Agnes Houg, Kjartan Slettemark, Germain Ngoma, Juliette Huxley, Chloe Elgie, Terje Bergstad, Raymonde Linossier, Ananda Acharya, Dario Levitt, Svallaug Svalastoga, Alfred Jarry, Bjarne Ness, Per Krohg, and Öyvind Fahlström
Special Projects:
Établissement d’en face, Brussels / Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Dorota Jurczak, Nathaniel de Large, Henrik Olai Kaarstein, Gauthier Oushoorn, and Jurgen Ots.
PROVENCE, Zurich