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Artist Julie Green died this month after a cancer diagnosis. "Green, an artist with a wide range of subjects, his paintings also explore gender roles, wrongful convictions, animal cruelty, and their own colorful lives-from childhood in Japan to teaching in Oregon-they were in 10 Died at home on December 12th at the age of 60. Corvallis, Oregon," The Washington Post reported Friday. 

As an art professor at Oregon State University, Green is known for creating "The Last Supper," which is 1,000 white plates with cobalt blue artwork depicting the last meal of American prisoners heading to the death penalty room. The current exhibit at the Bellevue Art Museum displays hundreds of such plates.

According to the museum website, Green lives in the Willamette Valley with her husband and artist Klay Lowman, "half of the year, usually during the winter months, [...] painting "The Last Supper"." 

Green is the recipient of a grant from the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptor Foundation and a scholarship from the Halle Ford Foundation, and is included in the Art World published by Prentice Hall. Green has held 42 solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including the New York Armory Show, Portland Upfor, Northwestern University Block Museum, Hunter Museum of American Art, and Liverpool University Museum of Art.

The artist writes for the 2020 "Last Supper" exhibition:

"When I was growing up, I admired the quilts and ceramics at home in Iowa, as well as the historical figures larger than real people and the 20-foot American flag made from colored corn ears in the neighbor’s yard. The appreciation of the production led me to paint blue food. I once shared my family’s support for Nixon and the death penalty. Now I don’t have one.

Oklahoma has more executions per capita than Texas. I taught there, and this is how I read the final meal requirements in the morning paper. The Last Supper illustrates the dietary requirements of death row inmates in the United States. Cobalt blue mineral paint was applied to second-hand ceramic plates, which were then kiln-fired to 1,400 degrees by technical consultants Toni Acock and Sandy Houtman.

[...] While looking for a permanent residence for the project, unless the death penalty ends soon, I will continue until there are 1,000 plates. For me, the last meal requirement humanizes the death row. The menu provides clues about region, ethnicity, and economic background. The Indiana Department of Corrections added, “He told us that he had never eaten a birthday cake, so we ordered a birthday cake for him.”

Art can be a kind of meditation. After seeing a request for 6 tacos, 6 donuts and a cherry cola in 1999, I wondered why we have the tradition of our last meal. Twenty-one years later, I still want to know. "

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