Holding Orange for Jason Strong, 2018  First Meal series acrylic on Tvyek, 47 x 35 inches After 15 years in prison, exoneree Jason Strong mentions a waitress bringing a gift of an orange, and holding it for 40 minutes before eating it, Strong

Holding Orange for Jason Strong, 2018 
First Meal series
acrylic on Tvyek, 47 x 35 inches

After 15 years in prison, exoneree Jason Strong mentions a waitress bringing a gift of an orange, and holding it for 40 minutes before eating it, Strong’s first orange in eight years.  The full interview is included in the painting’s upper right and Green incorporates the state bird and flower on the plate border.

Blueberries Handfed to Julie Rea , 2018 First Meal series acrylic on Tvyek, 35 x 47 inches Julie Rea’s first meal consisted of a potluck at friend’s house with an abundance of fresh fruit. Blueberries are Rea’s favorite fruit and mentions enjo

Blueberries Handfed to Julie Rea, 2018
First Meal series
acrylic on Tvyek, 35 x 47 inches

Julie Rea’s first meal consisted of a potluck at friend’s house with an abundance of fresh fruit. Blueberries are Rea’s favorite fruit and mentions enjoying them, handfed by a close friend. Of course, there is no fresh fruit in prison.

Denny’s , 2018 First Meal series acrylic on Tvyek, 34 x 46 inches A first meal at Denny’s ten years earlier remains vivid in this exoneree’s 2018 description: "T-bone steak, bacon, and pancakes. I had a knife in my hand to eat the steak. That w

Denny’s, 2018
First Meal series
acrylic on Tvyek, 34 x 46 inches

A first meal at Denny’s ten years earlier remains vivid in this exoneree’s 2018 description: "T-bone steak, bacon, and pancakes. I had a knife in my hand to eat the steak. That was so strange and I felt uneasy, like I would get in trouble for having it." The meal included both breakfast and dinner foods, enjoyed with parents, aunt, and uncle.

Golden Corral: Everyone Deserves a Good Meal , 2019 First Meal series acrylic, glow-in-the-dark thread and paint, silk thread, vintage piecework, one silver bead, on Tyvek; 36 x 47 inches The Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, Ka

Golden Corral: Everyone Deserves a Good Meal, 2019
First Meal series
acrylic, glow-in-the-dark thread and paint, silk thread, vintage piecework, one silver bead, on Tyvek; 36 x 47 inches

The Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, Karen Daniel, attended the meal at Golden Corral with the wrongfully convicted individual. Daniel provided photos to Green, which influenced the painting. The motto for the Golden Corral buffet is “Everyone Deserves a Good Meal.”

Burger Downtown for Mark Clements , 2019 First Meal series acrylic, found fabric, sewing, portion of Illinois state flag, glow-in-the-dark paint, on Tyvek; 47 x 36 inches Mark Clements was released from wrongful conviction eighteen years prior;

Burger Downtown for Mark Clements, 2019
First Meal series
acrylic, found fabric, sewing, portion of Illinois state flag, glow-in-the-dark paint, on Tyvek; 47 x 36 inches

Mark Clements was released from wrongful conviction eighteen years prior; the meal was simply described as a hamburger downtown with mother, daughter and attorney. The painting includes glow-in-the-dark text about Jon Burge, a former police commander who eventually served four years in Federal prison for perjury and torture. Clements was convicted in 1982. Only sixteen at the time, he was tortured by police into making a confession. In 2009, Clements' sentence was vacated when court documents showed that details in his confession did not match the facts of the crime. These days, Clements is an activist working on prison reform.

Huwe Burton Said Truth Freed Me, Music Kept Me Sane While I Waited , 2019 First Meal series acrylic and glow-in-the-dark paint on sewn Tyvek, 40 x 47.3 inches The title of this work comes directly from the wrongfully convicted individual's st

Huwe Burton Said Truth Freed Me, Music Kept Me Sane While I Waited, 2019
First Meal series
acrylic and glow-in-the-dark paint on sewn Tyvek, 40 x 47.3 inches

The title of this work comes directly from the wrongfully convicted individual's statement to Green. Huwe Burton describes a first meal of squash lasagna at Red Rooter in Harlem. Burton was sixteen years old when police forced a confession for rape and murder of Burton's own mother. The officers involved are known to have used coercion to obtain false confessions in at least one other case. Green thanks Burton and the Innocence Project for sharing this food story.

Pepsi-Cola Monticello for Horace Roberts , 2019 First Meal series acrylic and glow-in-the-dark logo on Tyvek, 38 x 47 inches On release, Horace Roberts enjoyed a big Pepsi first thing, then Chick-fil-A at the airport on the way home. Roberts s

Pepsi-Cola Monticello for Horace Roberts, 2019
First Meal series
acrylic and glow-in-the-dark logo on Tyvek, 38 x 47 inches

On release, Horace Roberts enjoyed a big Pepsi first thing, then Chick-fil-A at the airport on the way home. Roberts served more than 20 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. California Innocence Project provided this food story.

Purple Rain (after Galerie Des Modes) , 2020 from the series Fashion Plate acrylic, glow-in-the-dark paint and 22K gold leaf on gessoed Chinet plate, 10 x 10 x 0.25 inches

Purple Rain (after Galerie Des Modes), 2020
from the series Fashion Plate
acrylic, glow-in-the-dark paint and 22K gold leaf on gessoed Chinet plate, 10 x 10 x 0.25 inches

Always , 2020 from the series Fashion Plate pigment made from industrial waste water sludge, acrylic, glow-in-the-dark paint and 22K gold leaf on gessoed Chinet plate 10 x 10 x 0.25 inches

Always, 2020
from the series Fashion Plate
pigment made from industrial waste water sludge, acrylic, glow-in-the-dark paint and 22K gold leaf on gessoed Chinet plate
10 x 10 x 0.25 inches

Hoodie, after Lacourière, after Compte-Calix , 2019 from the series Fashion Plate acrylic, glow-in-the-dark paint and vintage cotton on gessoed Chinet plate, 10 x 12.75 x 0.25 inches

Hoodie, after Lacourière, after Compte-Calix, 2019
from the series Fashion Plate
acrylic, glow-in-the-dark paint and vintage cotton on gessoed Chinet plate, 10 x 12.75 x 0.25 inches

Big Fish Eat Little Fish , 2018 acrylic on Tyvek 46 x 34 inches

Big Fish Eat Little Fish, 2018
acrylic on Tyvek
46 x 34 inches

Studio Visit , 2017 from the series Fashion Plate acrylic and glow in the dark paint on Chinet paper plate 10.25 x 10.25 x 0.25 inches (not including frame)

Studio Visit, 2017
from the series Fashion Plate
acrylic and glow in the dark paint on Chinet paper plate
10.25 x 10.25 x 0.25 inches (not including frame)

My Silicone Love Doll: Flight Attendant , 2017 acrylic and glow in the dark paint on Chinet paper platter 10 x 12.75 x 0.25 inches

My Silicone Love Doll: Flight Attendant, 2017
acrylic and glow in the dark paint on Chinet paper platter
10 x 12.75 x 0.25 inches

My Silicone Love Doll: Flight Attendant (shown in low light), 2017 acrylic and glow in the dark paint on Chinet paper platter 10 x 12.75 x 0.25 inches

My Silicone Love Doll: Flight Attendant (shown in low light), 2017
acrylic and glow in the dark paint on Chinet paper platter
10 x 12.75 x 0.25 inches

My Silicone Love Doll: Flight Attendant (verso), 2017 acrylic and glow in the dark paint on Chinet paper platter 10 x 12.75 x 0.25 inches

My Silicone Love Doll: Flight Attendant (verso), 2017
acrylic and glow in the dark paint on Chinet paper platter
10 x 12.75 x 0.25 inches

To the Viewer , 2017 Gaijin , 2017 Lipsick , 2017 Russian Redder , 2017 (SOLD) each: acrylic and glow in the dark paint on gessoed Chinet platter with fingerprint facsimile backstamp

To the Viewer, 2017
Gaijin, 2017
Lipsick, 2017
Russian Redder, 2017 (SOLD)
each: acrylic and glow in the dark paint on gessoed Chinet platter with fingerprint facsimile backstamp

Younkers French Room , 2018 acrylic and glow in the dark paint on Chinet paper plate 10.25 x 10.25 x 0.25 inches

Younkers French Room, 2018
acrylic and glow in the dark paint on Chinet paper plate
10.25 x 10.25 x 0.25 inches

Younkers French Room (in low light), 2018 acrylic and glow in the dark paint on Chinet paper plate 10.25 x 10.25 x 0.25 inches

Younkers French Room (in low light), 2018
acrylic and glow in the dark paint on Chinet paper plate
10.25 x 10.25 x 0.25 inches

My New Blue Friend Number Fourteen , 2015 airbrushed egg tempera on cradled wooden panel 12 x 16 inches SOLD

My New Blue Friend Number Fourteen, 2015
airbrushed egg tempera on cradled wooden panel
12 x 16 inches
SOLD

My New Blue Friend Number Twenty-Eight , 2015 airbrushed egg tempera on cradled wooden panel 12 x 12 inches

My New Blue Friend Number Twenty-Eight, 2015
airbrushed egg tempera on cradled wooden panel
12 x 12 inches

My New Blue Friend Number Fifteen , 2015 airbrushed egg tempera on cradled wooden panel 12 x 16 inches

My New Blue Friend Number Fifteen, 2015
airbrushed egg tempera on cradled wooden panel
12 x 16 inches

An Embarrassment of Dishes , 2015 cobalt blue pigment, 7-Up and simple syrup, painted and kiln fired on a 1961 set of Noritake inherited from the artist’s grandmother functional service for 12

An Embarrassment of Dishes, 2015
cobalt blue pigment, 7-Up and simple syrup, painted and kiln fired on a 1961 set of Noritake inherited from the artist’s grandmother
functional service for 12

Champagne for Kristine Bunch , 2018  First Meal series acrylic on Tvyek , 47 x 34 inches Kristine Bunch describes meal of seafood, fresh vegetables, and champagne and adds “It was exciting but very scary. It was just unreal, a moment

Champagne for Kristine Bunch, 2018 
First Meal series
acrylic on Tvyek , 47 x 34 inches

Kristine Bunch describes meal of seafood, fresh vegetables, and champagne and adds “It was exciting but very scary. It was just unreal, a moment snapped out of time, like a dream that I expected someone to come snatch."  

Green met Kristine Bunch at The Last Supper exhibition in 2015, and Bunch's meal was the first Green depicted. To suggest the passage of time, Green references a Utopic, Victorian flow blue transferware. Unless stated otherwise, all food stories are generously provided by exoneree and collaborators at Center on Wrongful Convictions, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University.

Pizza Pennant , 2018 First Meal series acrylic on Tvyek, 46 x 36 inches A meal of pizza with family and friends after spending twenty-two years in prison wrongfully convicted of murder. Too excited to eat, the exoneree mentions being very, very

Pizza Pennant, 2018
First Meal series
acrylic on Tvyek, 46 x 36 inches

A meal of pizza with family and friends after spending twenty-two years in prison wrongfully convicted of murder. Too excited to eat, the exoneree mentions being very, very happy to be home with family, and Green includes these words in the border. Green sees First Meal paintings as flags; as pennants of loss.

Golf to Red Lobster , 2018 First Meal series acrylic on Tvyek, 42.5 x 33.5 inches Golf Digest ’s 2012 story on a New York inmate’s artwork depicting golf courses drew attention to the Valentino Dixon case. After twenty-seven years of wrongful

Golf to Red Lobster, 2018
First Meal series
acrylic on Tvyek, 42.5 x 33.5 inches

Golf Digest’s 2012 story on a New York inmate’s artwork depicting golf courses drew attention to the Valentino Dixon case. After twenty-seven years of wrongful imprisonment, Dixon was exonerated and went to Red Lobster.

Chicago Cubs , 2019 First Meal series acrylic on Tyvek, 46 x 36 inches On release in 2013, this exoneree's first meal was with their brother and attorney. The meal included a club chicken sandwich, fries, milk shake, and a Pepsi at FarmHouse Ca

Chicago Cubs, 2019
First Meal series
acrylic on Tyvek, 46 x 36 inches

On release in 2013, this exoneree's first meal was with their brother and attorney. The meal included a club chicken sandwich, fries, milk shake, and a Pepsi at FarmHouse Cafe. Exoneree was just seventeen when wrongly arrested for double murder in Chicago.

Thank God I'm Home said Marcel Brown , 2019 First Meal series acrylic on Tyvek, 35.5 x 46 inches On July 18, 2018, exoneration allowed Marcel Brown to enjoy a corned beef sandwich at mother’s home. "Thank God I’m home," Marcel Brown’s handwritte

Thank God I'm Home said Marcel Brown, 2019
First Meal series
acrylic on Tyvek, 35.5 x 46 inches

On July 18, 2018, exoneration allowed Marcel Brown to enjoy a corned beef sandwich at mother’s home. "Thank God I’m home," Marcel Brown’s handwritten comment to Green, is reproduced front and center.

Blind Faith for Juan Rivera , 2019 First Meal series acrylic, silk and glow-in-the dark thread, portion of Illinois state flag, watercolor, found butterfly sampler, marker, turmeric-dyed silk, and garam marsala sachet, on Tyvek; 44 x 41 inches

Blind Faith for Juan Rivera, 2019
First Meal series
acrylic, silk and glow-in-the dark thread, portion of Illinois state flag, watercolor, found butterfly sampler, marker, turmeric-dyed silk, and garam marsala sachet, on Tyvek; 44 x 41 inches

A cut-up Illinois state flag forms the butterfly, the state insect, in the center. Juan Rivera and attorney ate at Blind Faith, a vegan restaurant in Evanston. Rivera states about the meal, “I don’t really remember but it was full of spices and flavor and the food was beautiful. I wanted flavors, in there you don’t get any flavors.” The aromatic spice pouch on the upper left of the painting is to be refilled with fresh garam masala annually.

Liver , 2019 First Meal series acrylic and glow-in-the-dark paint on sewn Tyvek, 42.5 x 36 inches This individual describes a meal of liver and onions at mother’s home. Text in the painting's upper left reads, "what happens to a witness who mak

Liver, 2019
First Meal series
acrylic and glow-in-the-dark paint on sewn Tyvek, 42.5 x 36 inches

This individual describes a meal of liver and onions at mother’s home. Text in the painting's upper left reads, "what happens to a witness who makes false identification resulting in an innocent person going to prison".

Steak and a Dream Car , 2019 First Meal series acrylic and glow-in-the-dark paint on Tyvek, 36 x 47 inches Adam Braseel ate grilled steak and onions, baked potato, glass of milk. On release, an anonymous donor surprised Braseel with a dream ca

Steak and a Dream Car, 2019
First Meal series
acrylic and glow-in-the-dark paint on Tyvek, 36 x 47 inches

Adam Braseel ate grilled steak and onions, baked potato, glass of milk. On release, an anonymous donor surprised Braseel with a dream car: a 2004 Mustang. Exoneree Jason Strong, whose own story is included earlier in the series, provided first meal images and story for this painting.

Beef House Near Danville , 2020 First Meal series acrylic, platinum leaf, and glow-in-the-dark on Tyvek, 36 x 48.8 inches Text at the bottom of the work reads, "Randy Steidl, 1st steak in 17 years, Beef House near Danville Correctional Center".

Beef House Near Danville, 2020
First Meal series
acrylic, platinum leaf, and glow-in-the-dark on Tyvek, 36 x 48.8 inches

Text at the bottom of the work reads, "Randy Steidl, 1st steak in 17 years, Beef House near Danville Correctional Center". Green collaborated with artist and husband Clay Lohmann to sew the red meat center.

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