“if some yahoo from Brooklyn, with no technical training, can do these things then anybody can do them.”
Gregory Green earned his MFA at the School of the arts Institute Chicago in 1984, after receiving his BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1981. Since then his work has focused on the idea that the possibility for chaos exists ever more greatly as the tools to make bombs, computer viruses and other such weapons is ever more available to the public. Throughout his career he and his work have been at the center of a storm wherever he is shown. In his piece "10,000 hits of acid" he reproduced what that would look like creating the chemical compound and providing the recipe with all but the key hallucinogenic compound. When authorities got word that some artist had manufactured 10,000 hits of acid his gallery director was arrested and Green went into hiding until the chemicals had been tested proving he had committed no crime. With no further technical training then any other average American he has gone on to create almost working reproductions of missiles, spy satellites, and nuclear weapons. His more recent work has focused on the idea of creating a country and annexing space including the home base of the gallery that represents his work for the country's embassy.
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