Just about green
“I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love, and in the fire of truth.” Assata Shakur, Affirmations.
Bio
Desirae J. Green (b. 2003, Miami, Florida) is an artist currently based in Savannah, Georgia. Her paintings integrate symbolic figures with layers of vivacious color to understand and visualize the perplexity of human emotion. Desirae has had work in six group shows including The Black Creativity Exhibition at The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois and Wild Thing in ARTS Southeast in Savannah, GA. Green will be graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in painting in 2027.
Artist Statement .
To be alive is to experience the highs of love and the burden of emotion. Throughout my journey as an artist the concepts that my work is based on. Start from everyday emotions that we all have had experience with such as loneliness, pride, and strength. With my paintings acting as a recorder of a conversation between me and these fervent sensibilities. Pieces made up of my understanding of passions, memories, and the people in my life who I experience these sentiments through. To capture the beautiful complexity and layers of human kind and how much the people we interact with influence us and become our understanding of the world around us. Is the purpose of my work. Stripes of color that bargain with each other act as structures of a conversation. That later in the process becomes a dialog between me and the work. Creating these vivid and deep colored worlds and leaving behind rhythmic tinctures of different hues and figures of dynamic texture. That often mimics my beautifully fast paced childhood in South Florida. While also giving grace to the stillness of the swamp.
