Talia Greene
Talia Greene reframes our past and present to shed light on current topics related to science, social justice and the environment.
Greene has received grants from the Independence Foundation, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts to create site specific installations at three historic homes. She has shown her work in group shows across the country, including at the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, MD, The Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington DC, 516 Arts, in Albuquerque, NM. In 2018, Greene received a Percent for Art Commission to create an interactive mural at the Philadelphia City Archives. In 2021, Greene was an artist in residence at the bio tech company Integral Molecular, in partnership with the Esther Klein Gallery and Science Center in Philadelphia. Greene is an Adjunct Professor a number of universities in the Delaware Valley area.
#∆! by Talia Greene
In addition to investigating communication and language problems between scientists and the public at large, Greene’s series #∆! highlights the problems that arise with communication between cultures and languages. While the relationship between America and China has been strained for years, the ever mutating “facts” surrounding the origin of the virus has heightened the distrust between the countries. During my residency, I held round table discussions among the Chinese and Chinese-American scientists at Integral to explore the impacts of the pandemic on relations between China and the United States, as well as on Chinese-Americans in this country. The outcome of these conversations takes the form of a video and related print series, #∆!, which meditate on the nature of language, meaning and misunderstanding between countries, as well as between science and society.