Jonathan Green is best known for his vibrant depictions of the Gullah life and culture established by descendants of enslaved Africans who settled between northern Florida and North Carolina during the nineteenth century.
Edgar, educator Kim Cliett Long, and curator Kevin Grogan..
The book also includes short essays by historian Walter B.
Mack, executive director of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, provides a foreword.
Angela D.
Expressed through his mastery of color, Green illuminates the challenges and beauty of work, love, belonging, and the richness of community.
Using both the aesthetics of his heritage and the abstraction of the human figure, Green creates an almost mythological narrative from his everyday observations of rural and urban environments.
His open and inviting images beckon the world to not only see this vanishing culture but also to embrace its truth and enduring spirit.
This vision is reflected in the 179 new paintings featured in Gullah Spirit.
While Green\'s art continues to express the same energy, color, and deep respect for his ancestors, his techniques have evolved to feature bolder brush strokes and a use of depth and texture, all guided by his maturing artistic vision that is now more often about experiencing freedom and contentment through his art.
For decades, Green\'s vividly colored paintings and prints have captured and preserved the daily rituals and Gullah traditions of his childhood in the Lowcountry marshes of South Carolina.
Jonathan Green is best known for his vibrant depictions of the Gullah life and culture established by descendants of enslaved Africans who settled between northern Florida and North Carolina during the nineteenth century
