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Bombs Away!
by Jennifer Dalton


"Love of the Gun" by Gaetano LaRoche

Unusual artist Gregory Green has made a name for himself by making near-complete bombs and guns, and exhibiting diagrams and instructions for making poisons, nuclear devices and missiles.


"Innocent Viewer" by Lee M. Osborne Jr.

He often disguises his quasi-destructive contraptions in innocent hiding places, like large dictionaries. Working from the cold war fears prevalent during his childhood, Green has also made a functional radio transmitter modeled after Russia's original Sputnik satellite and mounted it on the roof of his studio building in Brooklyn.


"Live via Satellite" by Brian Leighton

"Gregnik Proto II" resembles Sputnik in aesthetics only, however. As originally commissioned by In the Public Realm, a program of New York's Public Art Fund, the function of Green's work was to broadcast artists' messages to the neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn for one month in 1997.


"The Intruder" by Catherine Dupire

Featuring works by PaintingsDirect.com artists.

See some of Gregory Green's works: "Intruder, Kilroy, Stealth, and Timid Viruses", "Book Bomb #10", "Gregnik Proto II".

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