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ark Greenwold's approach to
art has moved some distance
from the rabbis he painted
early in his career. Three recent paintings,
on view at the David Klein Gallery in
Birmingham, show nude figures in con-
trived settings.
Greenwold's works are part of a four-
person exhibit,"Domestic Disturbances','
running through Oct. 16. The other art-
ists represented are Jamie Adams, Julie
Blackmon and Hooper Turner.
"My work generally has been about
family, domesticity and the complex-
ity of all that',' says Greenwold, 67, who
teaches graduate art students at the State
University of New York at Albany.
"I'm also interested in the archetypes
involved in the notion of the home, and it
seems to me that any notion of domestic-
ity involves disturbance and drama."
While Greenwold's works involve a
range of scenes, they are likely to repeat
the faces of family and friends as well as
his own. That comes across through the
exhibited renderings Human Happiness,
Wanting and 0 Troubled Heart.
"My paintings are not literal stories','
says Greenwold, whose images are in
public collections, including those of
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the Cleveland Museum of Art and the
Indiana University Art Museum.
"They are not narratives in the sense
that a book tells a story or a film tells a
story. Each is a single image with incred-
ible ambiguity built into it because we
don't know what happened before or
what happens after.
While Human Happiness is set in a
beach house, Wanting projects a French
interior. 0 Troubled Heart was completed
in an industrial warehouse, which gave
the artist momentum for an outdoor
scene with different architectural levels.
"I have a juxtaposition of figures
that's very powerful for me to work with

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in terms of abstract language,' says
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"In the last seven years, I've started to
use an explosive, almost thought bubble
idea, like cartoonists use, coming out
of people's heads. The woman's head
in Wanting seems to be exploding with
some sort of abstraction that perhaps
suggests thought or emotion:"
Greenwold, divorced from two art-
ists and the father of two, grew up in
Cleveland, where a vague artistic interest
intensified in the 11th grade. He went on
to earn his bachelor's degree from the
Cleveland Institute of Art and his mas-
ter's degree from Indiana University.
"Teaching has enabled me to have a
steady income and a lot of time to work
in my home studio',' says Greenwold. "I
can spend a year on a painting, and that's
pretty unique."
Greenwold has described his approach
as "artistic mishegas," thinking of it as
humor-infused pathos and a Jewish way
of looking at the world.
"I don't look at art as a puzzle to be
solved," he says. "I believe the artist is
most involved in form, figuring out a way
to put something together that makes
visual, aesthetic and emotional sense but
not necessarily literal sense El

"Domestic Disturbances" is on view through Oct.16 at the David Klein
Gallery, 163 Townsend, in Birmingham. Hours are 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mondays-
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