Green Greenwald
born Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1940
-University Wisconsin Milwaukee 1958-1961
-Layton School of Art, Milwaukee 1961-1964
-Formed “Shags” in 1963, an “Art Band” doing performance pieces, recordings, and touring through 1971.
-Moved to San Francisco 1968, continued playing music, executing large murals, creating and showing sculptures in northern California galleries.
-Moved back to Wisconsin to become the “Space Commander,” a disc jockey, through 1978. Concentrated on paintings, interior design, and graphics.
-Moved to Sebastopol, California in 1979 to become groundskeeper of private estate, caring for Koi ponds and formal Japanese gardens; pursued sculpture and painting. Began “tongue in cheek” Saint / Guardian Angel paintings.
-Enrolled in Sonoma State University printmaking department in 1981. Returned to lithography, performance pieces and installations.
-Opened “Another Planet” with Richard Duben and began making “Electric Totems” and light sculptures from 1987 to 1992.
-Moved to Guerneville, California in 1989 and renewed the “Byzantine” Saint / Guardian Angel series of large paintings.
-Completed twenty large abstract paintings, the “Extravaganza” series from 1997 to 2000.
-Executed series of “Koi Poems” and “Koi Totems” – paintings, sculptures and lithographs from 2000 to 2003.
-Concluded 24 large paintings of Women in Fashion and 44 wood cut-outs of Portraits of Women’s Heads from 2003-2007.
-Completed a series of 30 Chinese Landscapes – “The Counterfeit Chinese Chronicles” from 2007 to 2011. 42 wood “Studies” were also finished during this period.
-Currently developing a new Saint / Guardian Angel series of paintings