Bad Influence, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, CA. July 2014 Artists: Gretchen Bender, Ashley Bickerton, Wim Delvoye, Jonathan Lasker

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1 ANDREW J. GREENE

2 ANDREW J. GREENE b.1988 Lake Forest, IL Lives and works in NY EDUCATION B.F.A. School of the Art Institute Chicago, 2011 SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS Tuesday Morning, (w/ Daniel Sullivan), U.S. Blues, Brooklyn, NY Victory Blindness, Muscle Beach, Portland, OR Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Michael Thibault, NADA, New York, NY Brisas Del Mar, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, CA Dog With Fleas, Christening for a Cat, Bed-Stuy Love Affair, Brooklyn, NY Marilyn Manson Without the Makeup (w/ Daniel Sullivan), 1dM, Chicago, IL Suprimir Moraleja (w/ Marion Ramos), Monument 2 Gallery, Chicago, IL SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Great Depression, Curated by Romain Dauriac, Balice Hertling, Paris, FR. December 2015 Playing Pool with Eggs, Curated by Tobias Spichtig, Galerie Bernhard, Zurich, CH Monday Me, Curated by Kristen Van Deventer, Soccer Club Club at Drag City, Chicago, IL Clorox/Envy, Curated by Miles Huston, New York, NY East 94th Street, Curated by Alex Bacon, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, CA , Andrew J. Greene, Sabine Reitmaier, Michael Thibault, Paramount Ranch Art Fair, Malibu, CA 2015 Seau Banco Carbon, Curated by Bed-Stuy Love Affair and Bobby Jesus, Bed-Stuy Love Affair and Tomorrow Gallery, New York, NY EAST 94th STREET / CHAUSSÉE DE WATERLOO 550, Curated by Alex Bacon, Middlemarch, Brussels, BE Little Nassau, Little Nassau, Brooklyn, NY Turnkey of Forever After, Bed-Stuy Love Affair, Brooklyn, NY Madere, Labriola & Greene, Primo s Lot, Brooklyn, NY IT-THOU, Michael Thibault Gallery, Los Angeles, CA two coffees, two brandies, Curated by Carlos Reyes, Denniston Hill, Woodridge, NY Warm, Signal, Brooklyn, NY SCULPTURE GARDEN, The Poor Farm, Waupaca, WI The Woodpile, Curated By John Bianchi, 27 Frost, Brooklyn, NY La Valise Bleu, Galeria Stefan Primo, New York, NY Painted, Curated by Tyson Reeder, Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI Untitled Document, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL Irritable Abstraction, Curated by Suzanne Doremus, Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, IL Television City Dream, Apartment Show New York, Brooklyn, NY Calling All Painters... Tyson Reeder & Andrew J. Greene, SubCity Projects, Chicago, IL CURATORIAL PROJECTS Bad Influence, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, CA. July 2014 Artists: Gretchen Bender, Ashley Bickerton, Wim Delvoye, Jonathan Lasker SCULPTURE GARDEN, The Poor Farm, Waupaca, WI. August 2012 Artists: Darja Bajagic, Ali Bailey, David Flaugher, Bradley Kronz, Jared Madere, Win

3 McCarthy, Stefan Primo, Sarah Sieradzki, Daniel Sullivan, Will Stewart, Kristen Van Deventer Phase I, Galeria Stefan Primo, New York, NY. May 2012 Artists: Taylor Adams, Matias Arganaraz, Nicholas Buffon, David Flaugher, Christopher Gatton, Bradley Kronz, Jared Madere, Win McCarthy, Dorian Mckaie, Roger Van Voorhees, Daniel Sullivan, Will Stewart, Timothy Terhaar Sculpture Garden/Painting Show, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL Artists: Ali Bailey, Jamison Brosseau, Mckeever Donovan, Christopher Gatton, Michelle Grabner, Nick Kramer, Samuel Lipp, William J. O Brien, Jory Rabinovitz, Matthew Rich, Daniel Sullivan, Justin Swinburne, Sean Townley, Kristen Van Deventer, Lisa Williamson Parking Space Chicago, (w/ EJ Hill and Matthew Schaffer), Chicago, IL BOOKS LOW-LEVEL BANKER, One Star Press, Paris, FR. (Forthcoming) Suprimir Moraleja (With Marion Ramos), Monument 2 Gallery, Chicago, IL BIBLIOGRAPHY Emerging Artist Profile, Dazed Magazine, December 2015 Bad Influence, Flash Art, Patrick Steffen, October 2014 Bad Influence, ArtForum, Olivian Cha, July 2014 Interview: Parking Space, Zing Magazine, Brandon Johnson, March 2010

4 Tuesday Morning (w/ Daniel Sullivan) 9/26/15-11/8/15 US Blues Brooklyn, New York

5 Dolphin Equities, 2015 Photograph, found flyer, Friedrich air conditioner placard on ceramic tile on honeycomb aluminum x inches

6 Tuesday Mourning Bench, 2015 Altered found restaurant booths Dimensions variable

7 Dolphin Equities, 2015 (Detail)

8 Dolphin Equities, 2015 (Detail)

9 Dolphin Equities, 2015 (Detail)

10 Ridgewood Chemist, 2015 Photograph, found flyer, Friedrich air conditioner placard on ceramic tile on honeycomb aluminum x inches

11 Tuesday Mourning Bench, 2015 Altered found restaurant booths Dimensions variable

12 Ridgewood Chemist, 2015 (Detail)

13 Ridgewood Chemist, 2015 (Detail)

14 Ridgewood Chemist, 2015 (Detail)

15 Playing Pool with Eggs Group show curated by Tobias Spichtig 10/29/15-11/21/15 Galerie Bernhard Zurich, Switzerland

16 Peabody Zurich, 2015 Papier Mache, cardboard, cast acrylic plastic, felt, acrylic paint, tennis grip, bonnet style hair dryer 57 x 14 x 49

17 Peabody Zurich, 2015 (Detail)

18 Peabody Zurich, 2015 (Detail)

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20 Friedrich Air Conditioning is a privately held company that manufactures commercial-grade room air conditioners and specialty cooling products for residential and light commercial 1 applications. Freedom Red Roses are grown in rich, volcanic soil producing the long, sturdy stems and larger heads for which these roses are famous. These roses are popularly used for wedding 2 flowers, special events, fund-raisers and other floral decor. Swans reach sexual maturity between 4 and 7 years of age. However, they form socially monogamous pair bonds from as early as 20 months that last for many years, and in some 3 cases, these bonds can last for life. In community building, the third place is the social setting separate from the two usual social environments of home (the first place) and the workplace (the second place). Examples of third places are salons, clubs or parks. Third places are important for civil 4 society, democracy, civic engagement and establishing feelings of a sense of place. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that crashed on July 17th, 2014 after being shot down, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. The Boeing ER airliner lost contact about 50 km (31 mi) from the Ukraine Russia border and crashed near Torez in Donetsk Oblast, 5 Ukraine, 40 km (25 mi) from the border. Papier-mâché was used in a number of firearms as a material to form sabots. A sabot is a device used in a firearm or cannon to fire a projectile. Despite the extremely high pressures and temperatures in the bore of a firearm, papier-mâché proved strong enough to contain the pressure, and push a sub-caliber projectile out of the barrel with a high degree of accuracy. In the Civil War, papier-mâché sabots were used in everything from small 6 arms to artillery. Solitaire, also called patience, is any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52 card decks, part or all of which are dealt out according to a given 7 pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner. Victory Blindness is a term used to express the phenomenon where, in an activist setting, we focus on small, incremental victories and allow them to blind us to the fundamental problems that are left unsolved. These small victories enthrall and satiate us and we lose our gumption. As a result, we stop short of achieving our larger goals. 8 1 Friedrich A/C units can be found in almost every apartment building in any neighborhood, rich or poor in New York City. Starting in 2011, Daniel Sullivan and I would go out late at night and make rubbings of the metal grills that people carve into. We started pronouncing the brand Fried-Rich. I began systematically removing logo placards from Friedrich air conditioners around the city. 2 Before I moved to New York I was a hopeless romantic and would send roses to women I was dating. I think it always turned them off. 3 When I was a child, I stayed at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando. The hotel is famous for its flock of ducks that march through the hotel once a day; their march culminates in a swim in the marble fountain in the center of the lobby. 4 New York does a good job of removing non-market oriented, positive third places, replacing them with bars or places where escapist social behavior takes place. 5 I was in LA last summer when the flight crashed. Kristen Van Deventer showed me the New York Times coverage of crash, specifically a photograph set in lush greenery and depicting plastic sheeting draped over a corpse; the plastic sheeting had accumulated dew and a single rose was placed on top of it. My roommate Taylor Adams is an editor at the Times and I later procured this image from him. 6 In 4th grade art class I made a papier-mâché duck head constructed with a large soup can and balloon. My brother maintains that it s the best artwork I ve ever made and keeps it in his living room. In the summer of 2012, I was frustrated with the lack of hand or craft in my work. I took a trip back to Chicago. I woke up on my brother s couch and this duck head was staring at me. Shortly thereafter, I began using papier-mâché. 7 Starting in 2012, when I worked for Andrew Kreps, I would routinely use my subway commute to play solitaire on my phone. I became disgusted at how easy it was for me to go blank. I started noticing how many other people were also playing solitaire during their commute. 8 I heard this term first while listening to NPR or Democracy Now! while at a job this spring. It seemed to aptly describe the kind of conservative attitude held by myself and my peers in New York in the face of some of the most problematic issues presented by recent history.

21 Victory Blindness 8/28/15-9/24/15 Muscle Beach Portland, Oregon

22 Victory Blindness, 2015 Roses, photograph, and Friedrich air conditioner placard 28 x 28

23 Victory Blindness, 2015 (Detail)

24 Victory Blindness, 2015 (Detail)

25 Peabody Kuala Lumpur, 2015 Papier mâché, felt, acrylic paint, tennis grip, bonnet style hair dryer 57 x 14 x 49

26 Peabody Kuala Lumpur, 2015 (Detail)

27 Peabody Kuala Lumpur, 2015 (Detail)

28 Peabody Kuala Lumpur, 2015 (Detail)

29 Victory Blindness 8/28/15-9/24/15 Muscle Beach, Portland Oregon

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31 Rich Dad, Poor Dad 5/14/15-5/17/15 NADA New York Michael Thibault

32 Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory), 2015 Truffles the bear, Rich Dad Poor Dad book, Duera Celtic harp, table Dimensions variable

33 Personality, 2015 Friedrich air conditioner placard, photograph, ceramic tile, formica, honeycomb aluminum panel 22 x 56 3/8

34 Personality, 2015 (Detail)

35 Envy, 2015 Friedrich air conditioner placard, photograph, ceramic tile, formica, honeycomb aluminum panel 22 x 56 3/8

36 Envy, 2015 (Detail)

37 Privilege, 2015 Friedrich air conditioner placard, photograph, ceramic tile, formica, honeycomb aluminum panel 22 x 56 3/8

38 Privilege, 2015 (Detail)

39 Brothers, 2015 Friedrich air conditioner placard, photograph, ceramic tile, formica, honeycomb aluminum panel 22 x 56 3/8

40 Brothers, 2015 (Detail)

41 Prestige, 2015 Friedrich air conditioner placard, photograph, ceramic tile, formica, honeycomb aluminum panel 22 x 56 3/8

42 Prestige, 2015 (Detail)

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44 Brisas Del Mar 11/15/14-12/20/14 Michael Thibault Los Angeles, CA

45 Brisas Del Mar, 2014 Moped cover, air mattress pump, lollipop, plexiglas, brass railing, cord Dimensions variable

46 Brisas Del Mar, 2014 (Detail)

47 Brisas Del Mar, 2014 (Detail)

48 Prince Peabody, 2014 Papier mâché, felt, acrylic paint, tennis grip, bonnet style hair dryer Dimensions variable

49 Prince Peabody, 2014 (Detail)

50 Prince Peabody, 2014 (Detail)

51 U.S. Polo Assassin, 2014 Carrara marble, adhesive vinyl decal Dimensions variable

52 U.S. Polo Assassin, 2014 (Detail)

53 U.S. Polo Assassin, 2014 (Detail)

54 Brisas Del Mar 11/15/14-12/20/14 Michael Thibault Los Angeles, CA

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56 Dog With Fleas/Christening For a Cat 9/20/13-10/5/13 Bed-Stuy Love Affair New York, NY

57 Dog With Fleas, Christening for a Cat, 2013 Peanuts, resin, reclaimed wood, hardware and anchor chain 120 x 28 x 32

58 Dog With Fleas, Christening for a Cat, 2013 (Detail)

59 Dog With Fleas, Christening for a Cat, 2013 (Detail)

60 Dog With Fleas, Christening for a Cat, 2013 (Detail)

61 Dog With Fleas, Christening for a Cat, 2013 (Detail)

62 The Peabody, Deck of cards from the Peabody Hotel Orlando Florida 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 1/2