Jonathan
Greene

I am interested in fabricating visual perspectives that offer simultaneous interpretations. Using tangible textures that impersonate natural surface, tonality that suggested natural form, and elementary shapes, I invent spaces that are subtly removed from reality.

My process reflects a tension between intentional and incidental marks, referencing natural occurrence with human interference. I allow characteristically unpredictable and autonomous materials to consume portions of my work. Influenced by my technical training in art and architecture, I then disrupt these organic marks with clean, ridged structures. I aim to create moments of intervention on landscape.

Beyond merely geographical, this work combines architectural and psychological principles and influences. Psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion referred to architecture as the “realization of mental space.” Subject to psychoanalysis for over a decade, I experienced a skewed perception of space, containment, and self. In my work, I attempt to evoke the pressures of this time and my relationship with my surroundings.