“There’s sort of a line between engineering a song like it’s a piece of artwork you’re trying to make, versus making it a vomitus confessional. I’m just employing the same techniques anyone would use in meeting a new friend or something. There’s an element of withholding information, but it’s not malicious. It’s almost like maybe you can compare it to seducing somebody.”
Biography
Adam Green (Mount Kisco - USA , 1981) is a musician, painter, sculptor and film director. He dropped out of college to follow his dream of making music and formed the group “The Moldy Peaches” with his friend Kimya Dawson.
After the breakup of the band in 2002 he started his solo career publishing various albums and in 2010 he took a break from music and focused on his artist and director job.
In 2005, Green entered the professional art world with his exhibition of a series of drawings titled "Animal Dreams" at Loyal Gallery in Stockholm. Green's art exhibition "Teen Tech" was displayed at New York's Morrison Hotel Gallery in 2010 and consisting of plaster sculptures, watercolor and acrylic large-scale paintings, drawings, collages and papier-mâché and mixed-material works.
He also formed an art collective named 3MB with Macaulay Culkin and Toby Goodshank. Their first exhibit “Leisure Inferno” opened at Le Poisson Rouge Gallery in October 2012. His most recent show was at The Hole Gallery for his show "Hot Chicks".
In 2011 he shot the movie “The Wrong Ferrari” in which drama, comedy, video game, fantasy and the psychedelic are mixed. In 2016 he finished filming the movie “Adam Green’s Aladdin”, a modern, psychedelic and visionary reinterpretation of Aladdin - fairy tale from One Thousand And One Nights.
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