Michael Green – "The Invisible Offering": sculpture

March 4 – March 28, 2020

Opening reception Friday, March 6 at 7:30pm

Co-Sponsors: Dr. Melissa Fransky, and Drs. J. Rawal and J. Guthrie

About the Artist

Michael Nathaniel Green holds a Diploma of Fine Arts from Georgian College in

Barrie, ON, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Lethbridge, AB. He

received his Masters of Fine Arts degree from Ohio State University. He lives and

works in Peterborough, Ontario where he is a member of the artist co-operative

Coeur Nouveau. Most recently he has shown at Evan Contemporary in Peterborough,

ON.

Artist Statement

I have schizophrenia. It has given me a first hand experience that there is so much more

to reality than what we can take in from our five senses. The surreal has a foundation in

our reality that is more relevant than ever.

As a sculptor I think about objects and their relationship to the observer. We are not

just passive observers in our reality, we play a participatory role in the universe.

Quantum physics has pointed to the act of measurement and observation collapsing the

world from possibilities to a single choice. Questions like does one’s thoughts or

consciousness affect matter or are objects more potentialities than solid objects interest

me as a sculptor.

Through the manipulation of material world I point to the surreal, ephemeral and ever

changing qualities of reality. One’s imagination disentangles from conventional meaning

and opens to the poetic relationships unfolding between the objects. Using abstraction

and organic minimalism, I weave the viewers’ perception between the familiar and

unfamiliar. I am drawn to the sensual, ephemeral and the ambiguous qualities of raw

materials, and to using everyday materials in unconventional ways. With the use of

unique materials the surfaces appear to be left malleable, revealing their hand-sculpted

qualities.

I explore object relationships to each other and where they are placed generating a

conversation between casualness and deliberateness of placement. Like a bewildering

surreal still life a poetic relationship opens between the objects and puts our comfort in

reality into question.

           “Courage Bars” by Michael Green