Amavia Exhibition

Christopher P. Green’s paintings are often conceived in groups or series; they influence each other, developing similar colours, forms, and content. The paintings’ motifs are repeated and reinterpreted in a cyclical process of experimentation and production. The only elements that he defines beforehand are the format and the number of works within a series; anything can happen during the rest of the process. His abstract language is subtle and witty at the same time, using colour and composition to challenge our ideas about optics and perspective.

Christopher P. Green (b. 1892, London) currently lives and works in Cornwall. He attended Arts Institute, Bournemouth (UK) and the Southampton Institute (UK).

In 2011 Green co-founded L.I.E, an independent arts library in Plymouth, whose collection is now housed at 41/42, Cornwall. In 2006 he co-founded Lyndhurst Way, an artist-run exhibition space, in Peckham, London (2006-2007). Green’s most recent book Professional Salad Vol. 1 was published in 2018. Green completed a residency at ALMA ZEVI Celerina, Switzerland in December 2019.

Recent exhibitions include The Blue Mask, ALMA ZEVI Venice (2021) ABRACADABRA!, curated by Freddie Powell, ALMA ZEVI, London (2021); O Sole Mio, curated by Ziba Ardalan, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London (2020); Studio Show, 41/42, St Ives (2020); On Board II, curated by Holly Willats, Espacio Vista, Madrid (2019); Works clockwise from entering studio – Part Two, Material, Mexico City (2018); Essays in varying lengths, Wolfson College, Oxford (2017); The Peckham Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice (2009), and Bold Tendencies 1 & 2, Peckham, London (2008).