STCC’s “Carberry Conversations” wraps up Black History Month with Springfield painter Andrae Green
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – “Carberry Conversations,” presented by Springfield Technical Community College’s Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery, continues Friday, Feb. 25 from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. with a virtual conversation between associate professor and gallery coordinator Sondra Peron and painter Andrae Green of Springfield.
Peron and Green will speak via Zoom. Register for the event at stcc.io/conversations.
Peron will ask Green about his work as a painter. According to his website, Green’s work explores the nuances of the collective consciousness that has been shaped by time, mythology and memory.
Green was born in Kingston, Jamaica where he attended the Edna Manley School for the Visual and Performing Arts. In 2006, Green was awarded a full scholarship grant sponsored by the Jamaican government and the Chase Fund to obtain his master’s in fine arts in Painting at the New York Academy of Art.
In 2011, he was awarded a residency at the CAC Troy, New York. His paintings have been shown in the United States, Jamaica, Canada, China and France.
In 2012 he was one of the first two artists chosen to represent Jamaica in the Beijing Biennale. In 2013, he was selected as a part of the American delegation that represented the United States at the Salon de Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris.
In 2019 he was an artist-in-residence at Experience Jamaique in Geneva, Switzerland. Green’s paintings are included in many private collections around the world. In 2017 his piece “Acquiescence I” was acquired by the National Museum of China. He lives and works in Western Massachusetts.
In fall 2016, Green featured several large oil on canvas paintings and drawings at the Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery. Green describes the figures on his canvases as coming “to life but not as how you expect. On my canvas figures dance, struggle, and play while being connected and disconnected from themselves. These figures speak about the current age that I live in.”
He goes on to state that this imagined world, where representation and reality can be interchanged and physicality can be fleeting, is filled with history, identity, and fantasy reinvented. Green characterizes his paintings as creations that “carry the same disjointed collaged patchwork that forms my identity, my hybridization. The figures and narratives involved speak of the slippages that occur when the self and the space that it occupies are fractured and then put back together.”
Carberry Conversations is a series of virtual talks throughout the academic year between Peron and several past exhibiting artists whose work has been on view at the Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery since 2013 and STCC’s very own art faculty.
Conceived in response to the ongoing pandemic, these conversations function as a space to connect working artists and photographers to STCC and the Greater Springfield community covering a wide variety of topics including, origin stories, the impact of current events on the artistic process, and the function of art and photography during times of crisis.
On Feb. 7, Carberry Conversations kicked off Black History Month with a discussion between Peron and Kiayani Douglas, a visual artist and educator.
Carberry Conversations is a series of virtual talks throughout the academic year between Peron and several past exhibiting artists whose work has been on view at the Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery since 2013. Conceived in response to the ongoing pandemic, these virtual conversations function as a space to connect working artists and photographers to STCC and the Greater Springfield community covering a wide variety of topics including, origin stories, impact of current events on artistic process, and the function of art and photography during times of crisis.
All Carberry Conversations are free and open to the public via Zoom. For more information about upcoming gallery events: https://www.stcc.edu/campus-life/arts-culture/amyhcarberrygallery/
The exhibition and associated events are supported in part by the School of Liberal and Professional Studies (LAPS) and the Fine Arts (A.A.) program.
About the Gallery
The Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery at Springfield Technical Community College features works by artists of local and national repute as well as STCC student work. The gallery is located in Building 28, first floor, on the Pearl Street side of the STCC campus. The gallery is supported in part by funding from the School of Liberal and Professional Studies (LAPS). Find the Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery on Facebook or follow on Twitter @STCCArtGallery.
About Springfield Technical Community College
STCC, the Commonwealth's only technical community college, continues the pioneering legacy of the Springfield Armory with comprehensive and technical education in manufacturing, STEM, healthcare, business, social services, and the liberal arts. STCC's highly regarded workforce, certificate, degree, and transfer programs are the most affordable in Springfield and provide unequalled opportunity for the vitality of Western Massachusetts. Founded in 1967, the college – a designated Hispanic Serving Institution – seeks to close achievement gaps among students who traditionally face societal barriers. STCC supports students as they transform their lives through intellectual, cultural, and economic engagement while becoming thoughtful, committed and socially responsible graduates.
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