Work by alum Noah Green (M.F.A. ‘18) is featured in a group show at Portland’s Bardo Tea. The installation titled “Rest Haven” is presented in collaboration with Helen’s Costume Fine Art and brings together painting, drawing, collage, object-based work and sound that operate through ambiguity, staging and spatial relation. The exhibition opens Jan. 25 at 6 p.m.

Greene presents objects and paintings made from found and manipulated materials. Some works are shaped through extended exposure to the elements; others are produced in the studio. These processes are not distinguished. The works are arranged in relation to one another and to the room they occupy. Meaning is produced through placement, proximity, and duration rather than narrative or explanation.

Installed within an active tearoom, “Rest Haven” does not separate viewing from use. Artworks coexist with daily ritual, consumption, and pause. Objects, images, and sound occupy the room alongside bodies in motion, producing a site that functions less as a gallery and more as a temporary arrangement.