About

An emerging painter and scholar from Bennington College, Marigold Green foregrounds positionality as both a methodological approach and a generative tension that rubs, reveals, and resists. She endeavors to make portraits that are psychologically charged: tender, yet saturated with intensity, monumentalizing the personal in ways that feel intimate yet allegorical. Invested in daughterhood, the slippage between naturalism and un-reality, and the imposing gaze countered by a sharp side-eye, Marigold paints what and who she knows intimately until she doesn’t anymore. What begins in devotion often ends in distortion.

Her influences include her sister’s split ends, Alice Neel’s loving and merciless gaze, and the moment in a home video when the camera lingers too long. Like a braid, the body is held together by tension, pulled tight at some points, loose and unraveling at others. The same figure may emerge across multiple works, evolving each time, made strange again. She questions how intimacy is transformed through the act of representation, and what is highlighted or made suspect in the translation. Who gets to be seen and what does it mean to stage that visibility, control the frame, and implicate oneself in the act of looking?