Erin Cluley Gallery is pleased to announce Full of song, an exhibition of work by Bronx-based artist Nathan Randall Green. The exhibition will debut new paintings combining techniques of paper collage, drawing, and sculpture. Featuring graphical representations of cosmological diagrams, Green’s work constructs an abstracted language of the universe. Full of song calibrates the vastness of the cosmos to a human scale: with their organic shapes, these paintings explore our collective understanding and expression of the natural environment.

Following a visit to the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, TX, Green became interested in cosmology, specifically diagrams tracking the movement and development of celestial systems. This diagrammatic representation of large, unknowably vast structures influenced the artist’s work: through repeating symbols of the sun and other stars, Green expressed the celestial into visual language. Following the birth of his children, the artist became interested in how representations of outer space, through images and diagrams, can mimic those of the human body—specifically prenatal sonograms. The paintings in Full of song, translate these representations into the illusionary space of art.

Green begins his process by building up organic compositions through layered paper pulp and collaging techniques. The rough, oblong shapes he creates mimic the natural textures of biological matter or eroded rock. Paintings like Our star, 6 skies (Conglomerate) portray the sun as it is seen from a human perspective, at different times of day and night. Green’s color palettes and compositions are developed through an intuitive process intending to express emotion through a quasi-scientific framing—bodies at a cosmic scale then become repositories for the artist’s intimate feelings of awe and communion with nature.
Full of song will be the artist’s first solo presentation with Erin Cluley Gallery. It will be exhibited concurrently an exhibition of work by Dallas-based artist Kevin Todora.

Nathan Randall Green (b. 1980, Houston, TX) received his B.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a founding member and partner of Okay Mountain Gallery and Collective in Austin and was a Curator of Education at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Most recently his work has been exhibited at the Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York, Walter Storms Gallery in Munich, Qualia Contemporary in Palo Alto, and SPRING / BREAK in New York. He has participated in Artist-In-Residence programs in Connecticut, New York, Vermont, Michigan, Illinois, and Dallas. Green has painted murals domestically and abroad. His work has been featured in publications including Huffington Post UK, Austin Chronicle, Glasstire, and Art Papers Magazine.

Nathan Randall Green lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.