"We were introduced to John Greene through other artists, who told us that we absolutely had to see his work. That was several years ago, and since then we have been introducing his work to our audiences in anticipation of this show. We feel it is important that John's work be seen."

"Process is very important to John. He is constantly combining different materials, mediums, and other tools to create beautiful art. Coupled with deep, rich, and yet uncommon color combinations, the result is meditative and exploratory."

"One would imagine that an artist who is in the midst of experimenting would create works of chaos or disorganization. Instead, John Greene's gift is his ability to create an almost Zen-like harmony of composition and mood. His constant search lends his work an experimental tone which is always exciting. The work is never simply joyous or sad – it is an invitation to the viewer to enter into the work. John's paintings represent an irrepressible impulse on his part to share his discoveries in material, texture, and emotion with the world. John does not offer up a hidden 'message,' rather he provides an engaging visual pathway for the viewer to find his/her own meaning."

"John Greene is a "painter's painter," an artist who luxuriates in the process of applying paint to canvas in order to create surfaces that are, at once, gestural and meditative. If his is an art of Whistlerian suggestion and elegance, it is also an art of active exploration and discovery of forms, textures and colors that, together, enable us to 'see and see again' the many pictorial possibilities inherent in his world view. Greene's atmospheric and painterly abstractions pay homage to the lessons of modernism while, at the same time, his use of encaustic, a technique dating back to the 4th-century B.C., reflects an artist well versed in his craft. The artist's joy in painting is fully apparent in works that evoke the voice of either poet or pioneer."

“Mr. Greene's abstract paintings bring to mind Diebenkorn's landscapes and Gorky's fluid line but intrigue the viewer further with their sensuality and emphasis on texture, created by the applications of layered wax, paint chips, copper and wood.”

“One approach to Greene's work might be the Gestalt psychologists' approach to art appreciation….You imaginatively take any painting , deconstruct it, and put it back together again. In this way you can vicariously re-experience the exciting use of ‘challenging' textures… inviting the viewer to see each painting again and again, in more ways than one.

“John Greene's encaustic paintings rely on both the textural element of his medium as well as the refined sensibility of color, form and distilled composition……he creates engaging and elegant statements, focused and direct, which invite personal interpretation”

“Nurtured by interests that are anchored in his love for craftsmanship and his incessant hunger for uncommon color harmony, the artist creates surfaces that engage light, seduces it and accommodates it within layers of wax and paint, at times allowing it to escape just enough to create a landscape contained deep within its illusive surface. There is a cerebral character to his work.”