Birth of a Star is the first solo exhibition of Madelynn Green, a London-based artist whose artworks functioned as counter-hegemonic images. She uses painting as a tool for radical image-making, that makes Black people possible to create their own images.
Madelynn Green, Red Giant, 2020. Courtesy of Artist. https://www.alminerech.com/
As a whole exhibition, Birth of a Star offers dynamic, creative, and vital images. It portrays the significance of music in Black culture as a site of political-cultural contestation. Music, along together with dance, movement, star figures, and people gathered in a space, are power to express liberation. Madelynn Green’s paintings are visualizations of the tight relationship between art, culture, and political struggle of Black People.
Madelynn Green, Open Cluster, 2020. Courtesy of Artist. https://www.alminerech.com/
“Madelynn Green’s paintings function as the physical embodiments of underrepresented histories and visually engender social and political concepts.”
Birth of a Star can be viewed until February 27, 2021, at Almine Rech, Paris.
Madelynn Green, Zenith, 2020. Courtesy of Artist. https://www.alminerech.com/
Madelynn Green. Photo by Vanessa Murrell. (c) DATEAGLE ART 2019. http://www.madelynngreen.com/about