Denise Green

For her second solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore New York, Denise Green presented abstract work that reverberated with buoyancy in color, exuberance with gravity defying forms and majestic glimpses of nature photographs.

「当我们大为谦卑的时候，便是我们最接近伟大的时候。（We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility）」这是曾获诺贝尔文学奖的印度大文豪泰戈尔（Rabindranath Tagore）让人耳熟能详的名句。他周游列国，与徐悲鸿、谭云山为友，对促进东西文化最落力，描写也最为细腻，甚至影响中国一代诗风。个半世纪后，泰戈尔对文化融通的深层视野仍然像基因遗传在第五代子孙Sundaram Tagore 的血液里。 「当我曾曾祖父拿到诺贝尔文学奖后，把奖金都捐到大学去，他深信人道主义（humanity）而非民族主义（nationalism）会令世界变好。我也深受影响，艺术不是商品也不只讲求美轮美奂，最重要是有没有达到历史解码的功能。」Sundaram Tagore这印度大文豪之后如是说。他更侃侃而谈「文化冲击」作为自己收藏和经营事业的单一准则与品味。

Sundaram Tagore Gallery has been named one of the top galleries in the world by Blouin Artinfo and Modern Painters magazine.

In conjunction with the launch of "Denise Green: An Artist’s Odyssey", published by the University of Minnesota Press, Artcritical sent contributing editor Jonathan Goodman to the artist’s studio for an in-depth discussion about the Australian artist’s time in Paris and New York and her contributions both as a visual artist and a writer and editor.

"The painting in Denise Green's latest exhibition, "Wonder and Evanescence," are florally themed but not flowery - they are serious latter-day abstractions. This is unsurprising given that the New York veteran trained at Hunter College some forty years ago with Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell."