Nathan Green:Farewell to the Endless art palace (2109 ceasar chavez) Through October 8. (512) 496-0687
Nathan Green’s mixed-media works on paper are heavily indebted to textile design. In fact, the new works included in Farewell to the Endless, include swatches of fabric cut into lumpy shapes that Green combines with patches of ruled notebook paper, bold strokes of paint, colored paper, felt, and slivers of super-market variety fluorescent stickers. Several large drawings evoke densely timbered landscapes, with a thick white stripe, dotted right down the middle with smaller red lines, snaking through the terrain. Green’s pine trees resemble something I might have drawn in grade school – triangles stacked one atop the other, with a stick of a trunk poking out the bottom of a leafy skirt. Even so, he succeeds in using such elementary shapes to produce familiar objects as well as vibrant patterns, suggesting a sense of play and maybe even clumsiness that, nevertheless, seems carefully studied. -Amanda Douberley, Glasstire
