Underground legend Justin Green (Binky Brown) gets his due with a nice write-up in Cincinatti’s CityBeat, where an exhibition of his work will soon be shown:
“A collision of sensibilities” is his description of the relationship between his upbringing as one of the initial baby boomers and the current generation’s hyper sophisticated childhood.
“The fact that your average 10-year-old male knows as much as a gynecologist about a woman’s body parts is astounding to me,” Green says with a laugh over coffee at Sitwell’s. “They have these mysteries offered to them at the click of a mouse, whereas we had to go into the bowels of Chicago to get retouched nudist magazines.”
Born in 1945 and raised near Chicago, Green was the son of a Jewish industrial realtor and his devoutly Catholic wife. Since his father didn’t practice his religion, Green was reared in a strict ’50s Catholic environment that would have a profound effect on his future.
“My mother was Irish Catholic and my father belonged to that generation of Jewish males that wanted to assimilate,” Green says. “I didn’t find out until after he was dead that his real name was Jacob. It was a very paradoxical life.”
