Studio - Chad Griffin

Studio

Chad Griffin is a visual artist living and working in Manhattan. He maintains a studio on the Upper West Side focused on painting and monotype printing.

His work is driven by a fascination with ideas and the influence of visual imagery on our internal dialog. As he works, Griffin finds fresh realities through feedback between the emerging image and his creative intuition. For him creating a picture is a process of introspection, exploration, and revelation.

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Paintings :: Recent

Monotypes :: 2024

“This alchemy of transformation from an idea to the finished picture is a visible manifestation of the internal dialog. It is recorded thought.”

–Griffin

“My pictures begin with a vision that I bring to the canvas to explore. From this seed, the interplay of the developing image and my creative intuition drives the discovery of the final work. Figures, symbols, color, and the painted word are the main elements in these images.”

– Griffin

2020 :: Century Series

Influenced by the spiritual color explorations of Mark Rothko, the metaphoric painting of Paul Klee and the pop art of Andy Warhol, this work is a powerful exploration of the duplicated icon and of the emotionality of color. Painted in acrylic, every painting begins with the stencil of a skull, the clichéd icon of mortality. Each is as unique as much as replica.

As a group this series addresses the dichotomy between the uniqueness of the individual amid the sameness of the species. Alone they are meditations on the conflict between the beauty of a life lived and its brevity.

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Early Work :: Elements Series

Nine Oil Paintings on Stretched Linen Canvas :: 20″ x 20″

Painted while living in a glass tower in the Chicago Loop these paintings where envisioned to be displayed in a 3×3 grid. They are painted with walnut oil and are part rebus and part alchemic text.

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Exhibitions

Participating artist in the MvVO Art, AD ART SHOW, 2024

12 Windows. Front windows of Blick Art on 23rd St. Manhattan. Solo Show. 2020, 2024

Mail Art Show! Lawrence and Clark Gallery. Chicago. Group Show. 2019

Armory Week Grand Opening. NYA Gallery. Manhattan. Group Show. 2019

The Oval Show. Con Artist Collective. Manhattan. Group Show. 2019

Unauthorized: 90 years of Mickey. Con Artist Collective. Manhattan. Group Show. 2018

Nine Elements. Private Home. Fort Atkinson, WI. Group Show. 2007

Chicago Art Open. Zhou B Art Center. Chicago. Group Show. 2006

Art of Alchemy. Bowery Poetry Club. Manhattan. Digital Video Installation. Solo Show. 2005

Current Paintings. Maya Whole Health, Seattle. Solo Show. 2004

Juried On the Fly. ER Gallery. Seattle. Group Show. 2004

Paleolithic Ideograms. Maya Whole Health, Seattle. Solo Show. 2003

Member of JEM Artist Studios. Seattle. 2003, 2004

Press

Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Georgetown Tour Reflects Changing Neighborhood. July 9, 2004

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