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THE RAC 5 – Mindy Green
Min Green, longtime RAC member, is a multimedia artist, art teacher and certified energy health therapist, making art and teaching for over 35 years. She just completed a full length commissioned portrait and is teaching cyanotype printing in Mexico in late September. In the 90s, Min created portrait workshops and a modern art curriculum for Fairfield County schools. Weaving a spiritual component in, she created Arts at the Center at Whittingham Cancer Center and Center for Hope. Min teaches at her studio, artGARAGE (opened in 2004) and helps clients at Green Healing Therapy, her healing practice, since 2011.
Describe your artwork in 5 words
THEMATIC, OTHERWORLDLY, LAYERED, DEEP, EVOCATIVE
What medium do your work in and why?
Being a curious multi-media artist, I paint, collage, print, photograph, work with salvaged wood. When I paint, I use my stash of papers to create a rich, information-laden work reflective of my inner world. With wood, I play until a story or totem presents itself. Collage is pure jazz, a musical puzzle. Art makes me feel at home in the world. A variety of media keeps me curious and fresh.
What is your favorite tool in creating art?
There are two: OBSERVATION AND IMAGINATION
From an early age, Imagination designed fantastical worlds and beings. To this day, I dig into Imagination to surface images not seen before, making the invisible visible. However, a balanced relationship with Observation: looking closely at nature, light and shadow, people’s uniqueness, the shape of things, is essential so that the unbelievable is believable.
What inspires your artwork?
MUSINGS ON LIFE & A SEARCH FOR ESSENCE
For over 40 years, people, places and concepts have been my subjects. I began as a portrait/fine artist, painting with Charles Ray and Pamela Dulong Williams. I studied abstraction with recently deceased mentor, Constance Kiermaier. Memory of a place or a concept like childhood can embed itself so strongly in my psyche that I must see what it looks like. I aim to unearth an energetic presence, done best through art.
How do I know when I have finished a piece of art?
BOXES ARE CHECKED: A BALANCE OF VARIETY & UNITY, solid composition, choices feel right, I’ve said enough, hopefully not too much! Painting over old paintings often creates magical, symbiotic relationships. Being process-oriented, I take progress photos showing me that I had many “finished” pieces along the way! One piece is actually a culmination of many wonderful forays into the unknown.
View her artwork on Instagram: @minddaly
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