JAMESON GREEN

Artist’s monograph published by Derek Eller Gallery (2022). Format: Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 inches, 96 pages.

Jameson Green is the third book I’ve designed for Derek Eller Gallery. Featuring a broad selection of the extraordinary paintings of this young Brooklyn-based painter, the volume accompanied Green’s second show at the New York City gallery in September 2022.

Green (born 1992) creates psychological parables rendered in a visual language steeped in the grandeur of art history, inflected with comics and illustration and filtered through a highly introspective lens. Sampling art-historical references ranging from Jacob Lawrence and Bill Traylor to Crumb, Picasso, Goya, Guston, Kokoschka and Rubens, Green creates a form of visual hip-hop infused with tremendous momentum and energy. Since receiving his MFA from Hunter College in 2019, Green has refined his remarkably evolved practice over the course of just three years, boldly deploying the imagery of racism in what he describes as “a representation of corruption in pursuit of power, racial division, bigotry, and through these things personal suffering.”

Jameson Green is the first to chronicle the artist’s recent creative output and features his most notable paintings, some of which now reside in permanent institutional collections such as the Dallas Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami and ICA Miami.