Cary Griffiths
Landscapes of the Mind
May 18 - June 7, 2012
Reception:
Thursday May 24, 2012 6-8 PM
Press Release
Salt Lake City-born and based artist Cary Griffiths paints to the accompaniment of jazz music, and one sees its influence in the resulting compositions, which combine improvisational forms with structured and deliberate execution. His acrylic canvases are based around series of looped, overlapping and intersecting lines, some wild and drip-like, others graphic and precise. These playful forms become the irregular latticework for Griffiths’ formal exercises with color. He fills certain closed areas formed by the intersecting lines of black paint with bold, contrasting tones and leaves others blank, creating surprising juxtapositions of shapes and shades that take up the central themes of abstract painting.
Rather than rely on rectilinear grids as the basis for his enthralling experiments, Griffiths employs a delightful fluidity. His application of colors respects edges and outlines meticulously, but he applies those lines in a variety of swirling, splattering and cascading ways. The resulting compositions combine a quasi-musical cadence with incredible painterly sophistication.
Artist Statement
I ordinarily paint to jazz music. As a painter I see and hear a bridge between the beauty of music and that of abstract art. When I paint I almost always feel a beat, a rhythm in what I am painting. As I paint I feel lifted, and lyrical. I think the variety of form, color, and content in my work reflects that I hear and feel what I paint. By position, dimension, and color I express associations with movement and emotions. I continue my search for art which brings both an intellectual and spiritual inspiration to the canvas. The focus of my current work is on the internal structure of my thoughts and feelings, using surfaces and lines, as I move far from the edge, the boundary, and the surface into the vast interior.
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