Robert E. Green: Think, Imagine, Reclaim
Robert E. Green
Robert E. Green’s artistic practice combines physical artmaking (assemblage, sculpture, painting, photography, and video), with acts of social justice that take the form of cultural festivals and events, creating a kind of “Gesamtkunstwerk.” His works and actions celebrate Black Pride and foster economic success within the Black community. Green’s artistic practice has also included the rescue and collection of African/African-American historical and cultural artifacts. He uses the collection and the community events he organizes as catalysts for education and the advancement of Black Pride. The rescue and renovation of the once stately 1883 home at 2205 Saint Louis Avenue extends this practice. The building, which he envisions becoming a neighborhood cultural center, as well as the act of acquisition, and its physical renovation– much of the work which Green did himself during the height of the Pandemic– is all part of his art practice and mission to uplift and renew the landscape in and around his community. Recipient of an artist grant from the RAC, Green has also shown his work at The Sheldon Art Galleries, 10th Street Galleries, the Griot Museum, 14th StreetArt Gallery, and Webster University, among others.
The Divided City Grant will fund a multimedia site-specific art installation by the visionary St. Louis artist and community activist, Robert E. Green that speaks to the spatial displacement of lives and communities fractured by the politics that have fostered years of systemic oppression of African Americans in St. Louis. The planned installation in and around a building in the St. Louis Place neighborhood, rescued and renovated by Green as part of his artmaking practice, includes assemblage, sculpture, video projection, and photographic work created from the building and its neighboring community.
Read a press release about Robert E. Green’s exhibition: