Too Sad to Tell You, Julie Green

Julie Green’s Fashion Plate series takes its decorative style from the artist’s collection of European flow blue ceramic plates. However, there are a few added twists. Green incorporates personal, historical, and political details in the margins of the paper plates, and she uses industrial strength glow-in-the-dark paint to embed imagery.
Green writes that her Fashion Plate series “focuses on content related to domesticity, identity, security, and bias. While some themes overlap with The Last Supper, Fashion Plate’s focus on women’s experiences also provides balance. The Last Supper necessarily prioritizes male experience because men are almost exclusively subjects of capital punishment in the U.S.”