Garage Gallery

Spiral Bound

In his large-scale loose-leafs, seemingly torn from the notebook of a distracted grade-schooler, Adam Greener explores the ways in which the youthful imagination processes the chaotic swirl of social and cultural imagery that seeks to shape, stimulate, and confine it all at once.

With this series of ink illustrations, created on handmade “notebook” sheets, he taps into his memories of his early visual preoccupations and re-presents them with a witty and subversive not-so-grown-up eye. In Greener’s vision, movie monsters cast an ominous shadow over a pop quiz; young Star Wars characters intrude upon a family portrait: All of early experience — cognitive, social, emotional — is circumscribed, for better or worse, by our cultural iconography.