Colony

Electric Works presents In the Project Space Colony October 22-November 26, 2010 Artist Reception: Friday, October 22, 6-8 PM Electric Works is pleased to present in the Project Space, Colony, three series of prints by Talia Greene that explore the themes of order and disorde... Read more

In the Project Space
Colony
October 22-November 26, 2010
Artist Reception: Friday, October 22, 6-8 PM

Electric Works is pleased to present in the Project Space, Colony, three series of prints by Talia Greene that explore the themes of order and disorder. The print installation Weaver Colony takes inspiration from the organizational behaviors of weaver ants to create filigrees of clambering insects. The ant towers move across the walls, around posts, and spill onto the floors of the gallery.

The group of prints at the center of the exhibition pairs altered portraits of 19th century Westerners with Orientalist postcards taken and traded by Westerners in the Colonial era. The themes of sensuality, concealment, and exposure, already implicit in Victorian and Orientalist imagery, are taken to an absurd degree. Shown together, the comparisons play with assumptions regarding the colonizer and subject. Here, the insects are the invaders, modestly cloaking the body of “Une Belle Morocain”, or burying a Victorian man in the chaotic swarm of his own beard.

Talia Greene received her BA from Wesleyan University, and her MFA from Mills College. She has had solo exhibitions in cities throughout the United States including Baltimore, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Brooklyn, at American University Museum in Washington, DC; and most recently at Delaware Center for Contemporary Art. Her work has been in group shows at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, MD, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, The Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC, International Print Center New York in New York City; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Rosa, CA, and Internationally at expositions for digital art in Cuba and Mexico. Her work is in private collections in California, Oklahoma, and throughout the Mid-Atlantic. Greene currently lives in Philadelphia, and is a Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts.