Ethan Greenbaum & Sun You on The Selection Committee Radio Show

Ethan engages with the iconography of public urban spaces, from signage to advertisements to the plywood barriers around building sites. His complex process incorporates printing, painting, and sculpting to create ambiguous yet compelling objects.

Sun’s work brings together baked polymer clay, cut and manipulated canvas, and paint to create intricate abstractions. Concentrating on play, intuition, and self-imposed constraints, Sun works a kind of alchemy of improvisation on humble materials.

The focus of our conversation was their two-person show “Fun,” full of new works on view at Geary in Millerton, NY from October 11 to December 7, 2025. The juxtaposition of the two artists’ work and practices finds form in a photo mural on either side of the central wall dividing the exhibition space. This mural is composed of an index of images of Ethan’s and Sun’s work in progress and life together.