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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.

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, Norfolk, VA
Invitational, "The Object Considered: Still lifes in OH, IN & IL'", Canzani Gallery, CCAD, Columbus, OH, & South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN & Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH.
Still-life Show, Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
Five -person show, "Landscape: As We See It", Gallery B, Lancaster, OH
Six-person show, "Patterns," Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH
Faculty Exhibition, Canzani Gallery, CCAD, Columbus, OH (8th show)
Columbus Art League’s Spring Museum Show, Columbus, OH (4th year)
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA (9 th & 10th year)
Ohio State Fair Professional Juried Exhibition, Columbus, OH (15th & 16th years)
Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 5th & 6th years)
6 person show, Finance fund Gallery, Columbus, OH
Art for Life, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Two-person show, “Painted Narratives”, LCAA Gallery, Newark, OH
One-person show, “Parade Paintings”, Harvey Hall, Clarion Univ. of PA, Clarion, PA
“7 Meanings, 7 Ways”, Studio B Gallery, Lancaster, OH
Seven Points of View, Canzani Gallery, CCAD,Columbus, OH
Carol Griffith’s Parade Paintings, Laura Paul Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Ten Year Gallery Retrospective, Rosewood Arts Centre, Kettering,OH
One-woman show, Mount Vernon Nazarene College, Mount Vernon, OH
Two-person show, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
Seven-person show, Machine Shop Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
“Heroes and Victims”, Katz and Dawgs Gallery, Columbus, OH
Invited Artist of Art Gallery Fushimi, Art Expo, Nagoya, Japan
Two-person show, Licking County Art Association Gallery, Newark, OH
Four-person show, “Urban, Suburban and Rural Landscapes”, Edinboro Univ. of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA
One-woman show, “On the Border”, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA
Two-person show, “Borderline Paintings”, Bunte Gallery, Franklin University, Columbus, OH
One-woman show, “On the Border”, Ann Arbor Art Association Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Four-person show, “Exlepsicfunkstapositum”, Race Street Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
One-woman show, “On the Border”, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Two-person show, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Three-person show, “Personal Repetitions”, Alabama State Univ. Gallery, Montgomery, AL
Invitational, “The Board Chooses”, Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
Women’s History Invitational, Massillon Museum, Massillon, OH
One-woman show, Rosewood Art Centre Gallery, Kettering, OH
Two-person Exhibition, Herndon House , Westerville, OH
Huntington 280, Huntington Art Museum, Huntington, WV (3 years)
One-woman show, Hawthorne Gallery, Columbia, MO
MFA Thesis Show, Siegfred Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH
W & J National Painting Show, Washington & Jefferson Col., Washington, PA (2 years)
Provincetown Art Museum National Painting Show, Provincetown, MA
Gallery 200 December & Fall Group Shows, Columbus, OH
Pittsburgh Plan for Art New Talent Invitational, Pittsburgh, PA
Small Works National, Zaner Gallery, Rochester, NY
Great Lakes Regional Art Exhibition, Cleveland, OH
Forbes Street Gallery Juried Show, Pittsburgh, PA

AWARDS

Juror's Choice Award, 65th Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 2001
Award of Distinction, Ohio Watercolor Society 25th Annual Exhibition,
Individual Artist’s Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, 1998
Best of Show Award, Ohio State Fair Professional Juried Exhibition, Columbus, OH, 1997
Foley Gallery Award, 1993, 2000.
Merit Awards 1990, 1989, 1985, & 1982.
Glass Axis Multi-media Grant, Columbus, OH. 1995
Ohio Arts Council Award, Huntington 280, Huntington Art Museum. Huntington, WV, 1987.
Best of Show and First Place Award in Professional Division.
Bi-County Artist’s ALF Art Show, Clarion, PA, 1985.
First Place in Professional Division,1981.
Martin B. Leisser Summer Activities Award, Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, 1981
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Artist 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 :
John W. Wolfe,Columbus OH
Macy & Shirley Block, Dublin, OH
LoAnn Crane, Columbus, OH
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