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Artist Statement
I am a figurative painter that draws inspiration from vintage photographs, awkward pinups, cacti, and tacky sweaters. I use painting to blur lines between reality and fiction, care and harm, self and other. In contrast to art’s history of making the female body known, I use paint for its veiling effect, for its ability to seduce while resisting easy answers. Painting can be a disguise, a simultaneous revealing and re/veiling.
My female figures are all anachronistic, drawn from vintage found photos, painted into incomplete spaces outside time, where layers of dimensionality and flatness defy direct narratives. I am currently interested in painting figures on velvet. The tactile, provocative texture of the velvet and its association with kitsch keep me coming back to it. I am expanding my themes of fierce vulnerability to think more about queer gazes, intimacy, and care work. The narrative elements of my paintings are heavily influenced by magical realism as a genre, one that carries huge potential for writing queer histories and futures.
Artist Bio
Hilary Greenstein once cried while watching an Olive Garden commercial. She is also a fine artist and educator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2013.
You may have seen her paintings around Minnesota at Gamut Gallery, Rochester Center for the Arts, Rosalux Gallery, and Hopkins Center for the Arts. She paints in studio 206A of the California Building in Northeast Minneapolis, and opens her studio to the public for Art-a-Whirl. In her spare time, she works tirelessly to keep her cat, Charlemagne out of trouble. She is a Scorpio, but please don’t let that scare you.
I take commissions, please inquire!
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2019-2020

A Pointed Question

A Scene

Act 3

Another Scene

August

Been There

Being the Bigger Person

Change My Mind

Crybaby

Fin

Help Yourself

Honey

I Love You Baby But I Just Can’t Smile

I Think You Should Leave

Interlude

Killing Time

Look,

Nevermind

Nobody Helps Anyone

On Top

Ophelia

Promise Descending a Staircase

Reminder

Settle Down

Stay a Little Longer

Take My Time

Toughluck

We Always Say Careful Afterwards

Where You Stand

Who’s There Now

Wish You Were Here

The Last Time

The Last Time 2

The Last Time 3

The Last Time 4

The Last Time 5

The Last Time 6

See You

Girls’ Night Archival Print
2017-2018

Are You Ok

Coma, Splice

Contrapposto Baby 1

Contrapposto Baby 2

Contrapposto Baby 3

Contrapposto Baby 4

Contrapposto Baby 5

Contrapposto Baby 6

Contrapposto Baby 7

Contrapposto Baby 8

Don’t Wait Up

Heartbreak is Behind You Now

Heavy Weather

Inquiry 10

Inquiry 11

Inquiry 12

Inquiry 14

Inquiry 15

Lost Cause

Nobody Helps Anyone

Now I Know

Should I Be Worried About You?

Sinking Feeling

Split Second

Standoff

Standstill

The Last One

Tropical Depression 1

Tropical Depression 2
2016

Attention

Awkward Silence

Embrace 1

Embrace 2

Embrace 3

Embrace 4

Embrace 5

Embrace 6

Falling for It

Full of Space

Holes in My Mind

Mental Gymnastics

Olympia

Reprise

The Invention of Certainty

The Opposite Of

Thinking About Wishing

Verso

Who’s There When You’re Not
Linoleum Prints

Cacti

Cacti A/P 1

Cacti A/P 2

Cacti A/P 3

Cacti A/P 4

Cacti A/P 5
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