Bale Creek Allen Gallery is pleased to announce "I Know it's a Distance", a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York based Nathan Randall Green. His richly colored works contemplate the grandeur and scale of the universe. Through the process of intuitive painterly abstraction, Green offers representations of the exquisite and ethereal nature of our universe to create tangible, curiously evocative works.

 Green has developed a distinctly tactile approach to painting by building irregularly shaped, rounded panels rich with surface texture . By applying successive layers of graphic, geometric imagery on top of highly textured surfaces, he collides the illusionary space of a painting with its own objecthood. The paintings are scraped, sanded and patched, weathered with the history of their making. In building his pictorial language, Green uses simple, recognizable symbols such as crescents, radiant lines, and solar symbols to describe and celebrate complex cosmological ideas.

The resulting paintings function not as schematic diagrams or illustrations but rather a searching meditation on cosmological and theoretical ideas that are an eternal source of awe.

About the Artist:

Nathan Randall Green was born in Houston, Texas, and received his B.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a founding member and partner of Okay Mountain Gallery and Collective in Austin and was a Curator of Education at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Most recently his work has been exhibited at the Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York, Walter Storms Gallery in Munich, Qualia Contemporary in Palo Alto, and SPRING / BREAK in New York. He has also participated in Artist-In-Residence programs in Connecticut, New York, Vermont, Michigan, Illinois, and Dallas, and has painted murals domestically and abroad. The artist currently lives and works in The Bronx.