Stacy Greene — Jessica Murray Projects

On a more modest and intimate scale are the very compelling works in the gallery's Drawing Room by Stacy Greene.  Using the Bindi, the forehead mark that signifies the married status of Hindu women, she has taken recent Western fashion appropriation of this icon several steps further by effectively turning it into a painting medium.  Her beautifully colored and richly layered mandalas represent the cultural symbol as spiritually inflected pop iconography that is also eye-popping in color.  Fanning out in floral patterns on solid colored backgrounds of richly saturated green, pink, yellow or orange, these pieces are a luxurious indulgence in adornment and decoration.  It is mind-boggling the diverse number of designs for this one small symbol, and Ms. Greene's work reflects the infinite variety of this microcosmic world. — Susan Hamburger, Waterfront Week, June 13, 2002, Vol. 12.12