Stan Greene, People of the River, 1999, serigraph, ed. 135/160. Gift of the Salish Weave Collection of George and Christiane Smyth, 2021. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.
Stan Greene
Stan Greene, along with a young Susan Point, was a significant forerunner of Coast Salish art in the 1980’s and is a well-established and highly respected contemporary Coast Salish artist. He is credited with bringing visibility to Coast Salish artistic practice over his long career. People of the River is a serigraph of a landscape depicting people canoeing on a body of water, with fish drying and smoking on shore in the foreground. The use of crescent and trigon forms in the faces in the mountain and along the sides of the jumping fish identify the imagery as Coast Salish in its composition.
Stan Greene is a Salish artist from Stó:lō, Semiahmoo and Niimíipu (Nez Perce, from the Columbia River Plateau). He works in different media, including printmaking, wood carving, and painting. Greene was a significant forerunner of Coast Salish art in the 1980s and is credited with bringing visibility to Coast Salish artistic practice over his long career. Greene has been connected to the Coast Salish art community over the past four decades and has been recognized for numerous significant public art works. Greene carved two Salish house posts that were exhibited at the 1986 World Expo in Vancouver, B.C. and in 1987 he carved a pole that was raised in the Kanazawa Park of Yokohama City, Japan. He also exhibited his work at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, B.C. His work was part of the exhibition, Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 2 at the Museum of Art and Design in New York, 2005.