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About the Artist
Walking before he was running, Iaian Greenson wrote books before he painted. His work was about individuals examining objects in a path. Those people sought to find meaning not just in the objects, but also in the path itself. From Canada, Iaian eschews the kind of polite-passive intellectualism that bogs down some Canadian art. His work goes for the heart, the ass, and the eye. Like a musician, Iaian uses color as reverb, and his palette is Mattise's. His surface imagery carefully randomized like Basquiat. We see our own faces on the canvas, as he playfully asks us to define our place in a world where "Pop" culture, is quickly just becoming the culture.
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