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Artist Exhibitions:
EXHIBITIONS
OH +5 Juried Exhibition, Dairy
Barn Gallery, Athens, OH
125 th Centennial Wall to Wall
Exhibition, Carnegie-Mellon
University, Pittsburgh PA
Invitational, 20/20,
Schumacher Gallerry, Capital
University, Columbbus OH
Ohio Watercolor Society 25th
Annual Exhibition & Traveling
Exhibit, Sardinia, OH & 5
other Ohio cities
Invitational, "Will", Old
Dominion University, ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Collection, Main branch and
Northeast branch, Columbus,
OH.
Huntington Bank Collection,
Huntington Bank Building,
Columbus, OH.
Purchase Award, Warner Hall
Collection, Carnegie-Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA,
1981.
Private collections including
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John W. Wolfe,Columbus OH
Macy & Shirley Block, Dublin,
OH
LoAnn Crane, Columbus, OH
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Commissions:
I have done a number of
private commissions. Several
works that were done on
commission are included in my
portfolio-See "Coney Island",
"Men and the Sea" and
"Columbus Power"
My approach to commissions has
been to discuss a client's
ideas and expectations to see
if they suggest an ...
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Artist Statement for Carol Griffith
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My oil paintings are meditations triggered by places or situations in my memory, arrived at through a sort of daydreaming state of mind. I attempt to evoke that mood in the handling of the formal elements of the painting, especially the color and the perspectival point of view. I wish to create both a believable place and the sense of something more significant behind it. The viewer, in contact with the painting and their own memories, may then project into the space and experience the significance that I sensed.
This approach has led me to an interest in souvenirs. I see them as an attempt to capture a special place or experience in concrete or symbolic form. By doing paintings of my own remembered places and experiences, I have been following a parallel path. I like the comparison with one purpose of art.
I use borders in some of the paintings to function simultaneously as framing devices and as an arena in which to create a dialogue with the internal painting. The borders also extend the meaning of the internal subject. Memories often consist of simultaneous kaleidoscopic vignettes that, in combination, embody the whole, original experience. Each vignette is also rich and full of expanding detail and meaning. It is this multi-faceted effect that I am trying to capture by making each vignette a separate, viable painting that, when linked up with the related paintings, completes the wider and more varied theme.
I paint my images from memory. A result of this passage of time is to bring to these places or experiences a more distanced, evaluative view of their meanings. As I reflect on the subjects during the long development process of a painting, I sometimes try to incorporate the insights I’ve arrived at about their larger social significance, beyond the emotional or psychic effect that originally generated the images. I would like the meanings of my paintings to be as multilayered as their actual surfaces are.
The watercolors involve a series done from life in which I was trying to create visual puns on the idea of patterns as both flat, repetitive decorative designs and as reflections of forms from the real, three-dimensional world. I have also pursued a more political series of narrative still-lifes of high stakes gaming. These two series seem to be coming together in the most recent watercolors.
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