Hilary Greenstein
Painting
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.
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2019-2020
A Pointed Question
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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A Scene
Oil, latex, and collage on panel
8″ x 10″
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Act 3
Oil, latex, and collage on panel
8″ x 10″
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Another Scene
Oil, latex, and collage on panel
8″ x 10″
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August
Oil, latex, and collage on panel
8″ x 10″
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Been There
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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Being the Bigger Person
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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Change My Mind
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
16″ x 20″
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Crybaby
Oil, latex, and fabric on canvas
16″ x 22″
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Fin
Oil and latex on panel
8″ x 10″
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Help Yourself
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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Honey
Latex and collage on panel
16″ x 20″
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I Love You Baby But I Just Can’t Smile
Oil and latex on panel
26″ x 36″
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I Think You Should Leave
Oil and latex on velvet
40″ x 30″
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Interlude
Oil, latex, and collage on panel
12″ x 12″
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Killing Time
Oil, latex, and colored pencil on panel
12″ x 12″
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Look,
Oil and latex on panel
16″ x 22″
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Nevermind
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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Nobody Helps Anyone
Oil, latex, and collage on panel
42″ x 57.5″
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On Top
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Ophelia
Oil and latex on panel
16″ x 22″
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Promise Descending a Staircase
Oil and latex on canvas
18″ x 24″
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Reminder
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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Settle Down
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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Stay a Little Longer
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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Take My Time
Oil, latex, and fabric on canvas
16″ x 20″
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Toughluck
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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We Always Say Careful Afterwards
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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Where You Stand
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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Who’s There Now
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 83″
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Wish You Were Here
Oil and latex on canvas
24″ x 36″
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The Last Time
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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The Last Time 2
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The Last Time 3
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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The Last Time 4
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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The Last Time 5
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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The Last Time 6
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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2017-2018
Are You Ok
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Coma, Splice
Oil, latex, and fabric on canvas
34″ x 83″
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Contrapposto Baby 1
Oil, latex, and collage on panel
8″ x 10″
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Contrapposto Baby 2
Oil, latex, and fabric on panel
8″ x 10″
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Contrapposto Baby 3
Oil, latex, and fabric on panel
8″ x 10″
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Contrapposto Baby 4
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
8″ x 10″
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Contrapposto Baby 5
Oil, latex, and collage on panel
8″ x 10″
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Contrapposto Baby 6
Oil and latex on panel
8″ x 10″
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Contrapposto Baby 7
Oil, latex, and collage on panel
8″ x 10″
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Contrapposto Baby 8
Oil, latex, and collage on panel
8″ x 10″
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Don’t Wait Up
Oil, latex, and graphite on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Heartbreak is Behind You Now
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 83″
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Heavy Weather
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Inquiry 10
Oil and latex on canvas
8″ x 10″
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Inquiry 11
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
8″ x 10″
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Inquiry 12
Oil and latex on canvas
8″ x 10″
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Inquiry 14
Oil and latex on canvas
8″ x 10″
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Inquiry 15
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
8″ x 10″
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Lost Cause
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Nobody Helps Anyone
Oil, latex, and collage on panel
42″ x 57.5″
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Now I Know
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Should I Be Worried About You?
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Sinking Feeling
Oil, latex, and fabric on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Split Second
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Standoff
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Standstill
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 34″
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The Last One
Oil, latex, and fabric on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Tropical Depression 1
Oil, latex, and collage on velvet
30″ x 40″
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Tropical Depression 2
Oil and latex on velvet
30″ x 40″
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2016
Attention
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 83″
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Awkward Silence
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Embrace 1
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
34″ x 83″
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Embrace 2
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 83″
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Embrace 3
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 83″
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Embrace 4
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 83″
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Embrace 5
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 83″
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Embrace 6
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 83″
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Falling for It
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Full of Space
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
34″ x 83″
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Holes in My Mind
Oil, latex, and fabric on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Mental Gymnastics
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
34″ x 83″
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Olympia
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Reprise
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 83″
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The Invention of Certainty
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
34″ x 34″
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The Opposite Of
Oil, latex, and collage on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Thinking About Wishing
Oil, latex, and fabric on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Verso
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 83″
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Who’s There When You’re Not
Oil and latex on canvas
34″ x 34″
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Linoleum Prints
Cacti
Linoleum print on fine art paper
from edition of 20
12″ x 18″
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Cacti A/P 1
Hand-colored linoleum print on fine art paper
from edition of 20
12″ x 18″
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Cacti A/P 2
Hand-colored linoleum print on fine art paper
from edition of 20
18″ x 12″
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Cacti A/P 3
Hand-colored linoleum print on fine art paper
from edition of 20
12″ x 18″
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Cacti A/P 4
Hand-colored linoleum print on fine art paper
from edition of 20
12″ x 18″
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Cacti A/P 5
Hand-colored linoleum print on fine art paper
from edition of 20
12″ x 18″
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