Eleanor Greer

“The transparency of the wooden construction echoes the absence of the trees that used to stand in tall parallel lines on the same spot".



Eleanor Greer is an artist from Southern California and living in Eindhoven. Her work consists primarily of colorful paintings that pull from direct observation of urban environments, with a questioning lens towards material usage and curation of the natural world. Eleanor has her MFA in Painting from San Diego State University in California. 

Family House #1-3 explore the construction of a new single-family home, inspired by photographs taken two generations ago. Through the act of painting and viewing a painting, we can insert ourselves into the narrative as if looking back through a glass lens to reexamine seemingly benign domestic design decisions. 

For example: 

• A forested area has obviously been cleared in order to build. The transparency of the wooden construction echoes the absence of the trees that used to stand in tall parallel lines on the same spot. 
• New symmetrical planter beds flank the entrance, organizing the former forest floor into new domestic space. 
• Construction feels like a male space (why?). The enclosed and tidily painted space feels like a female space (why?). What then is a painting of a construction scene of a house?