Let Love In by Sean Greene

Wicked Wednesday greetings, collectors. NYC is in full summer swelter, which has me contemplating greener (and shadier!) pastures and seeking air-conditioned shelter till I can make my escape. Today's edition, our second by Northampton, MA-based painter Sean Greene, is also soothing in its own way. The heat might be making me crazy, but the rich hues of Let Love In evoke the sweet refreshment found in Italian ices consumed in summers past, the kind that came in wax paper cups and were eaten with flat, wooden spoons.

Evocations of such simple pleasures aside, it must be noted that Sean has much more than Marino's Italian Ice on his mind when making his intensely pigmented, sensuously curvy abstractions, deriving a very different (and considerably more cerebral!) pleasure from their making. In his statement, he writes:

These contours, structures and paths give me a way to control the number of times colors mix, as well as locate areas of hotness or contrast, allowing me to create rhythm and balance within a sometimes tumultuous situation. I find deep satisfaction in the way that these forms imply typography, symbols, graffiti and other forms of visual expression. It makes sense to me to develop shapes that ask to be read or deciphered.

If you're going to be in the Berkshires anytime soon (you lucky duck) be sure to swing by the Geoffrey Young Gallery on Railroad Street, where you'll have the opportunity to see in person the original painting this print is based on. That original sold on opening night, however, so today's 20x200 edition is the only way to let Let Love In into your life. The exhibition, entitled Traction, features work by Vince Contarino, Mr. Sean Greene himself and another member of the 20x200 fam—and someone whose smiling face is often seen at Jen Bekman Gallery openings—Gary Petersen.

For those of us not fortunate enough to have a Berkshires sojourn on our agendas, we can look to the interwebs for a deeper exploration of Sean's work. You should check out his site, follow him on Twitter and see his not-to-be-missed first 20x200 edition, Try Letting Go.