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Mixed Greens is pleased to start the season with a solo exhibition by Rudy Shepherd. The show will include a new series of photographs, a life-sized cave and a new video.

Upon entering the gallery, the viewer will be confronted by a large, white cloud cave floating in a blue sky. Surrounding the cave will be a series of 40 x 40 inch photographs entitled “Ursa Major Contemplating the Meaning of the Universe.” Through music emanating from the cave, the viewer is lured inside to sit with a video monitor. Both the video and the accompanying photographs inspire conversations related to identity, fatherhood, and home. It becomes apparent that it is not the outward costume that is scary, but the potential and mysterious nature of the individual within the disguise.
Mixed Greens is pleased to present their first solo exhibition of Miami-based artist A.A. Rucci entitled The Temple in the Trembling Prairie.

In his paintings, Rucci reduces an entire performative act into a single image. A staged reality results from a complex documentary-style methodology that combines performance, digital drawings and traditional painting. Rucci¿s small-scale figures on a relatively large expanse of ground encourage viewer intimacy. His figures are rendered headless to allow the viewer to engage in the narrative and complete the character, not in an attempt to decapitate or diminish. The main character in Rucci¿s paintings is a woman named Nicola—a female protagonist and center of his painted universe. She, like us, can remember specifics about emotional conditions and possibly what someone was wearing, but architectural or background elements are reduced to prop-like signifiers. In Nicola¿s world, lighting is consistent and undramatic… in memory there are no shadows.