“Meet the Artist” with Naima Green

On Thursday, December 21, we welcome Naima Green to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. Green will be discussing her ongoing work rooted in intimate interventions within natural landscapes. It centers figures in lush, drenched, watery environments as sites of leisure, transformation, pleasure, and play. She will have her books, Pur·suit decks and I Keep Missing My Water for sale during the event. This event will not be live streamed.

Join us every Thursday evening at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. “Meet the Artist” allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 474 Broadway in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served. “Meet the Artist” is made possible by a generous grant from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.

Naima Green is an artist and educator who pictures Black and Queer individuals and communities to document their vibrant relationships to place and pleasure. Green accesses and prioritizes the nature of intimacy, safety, and self-recognition. She considers water as fluid and regenerative and presents a window into the relationship between pleasure and the complex experience of the ocean: beauty, leisure, buoyancy, and overwhelm. Oral and written histories, and the archival material essential to uncovering these stories, are critical to her process. By synthesizing archival research with outreach and conversation with current sitters, she frames photo-making as a continuum and her still images as kinetic, living histories.