Tammy Griffin
08 - 31 Mar 2006
TAMMY GRIFFIN
"Intimate Circuits"
My paintings are abstract versions of realistic portraits, private associations, self-invented marks, words and maps of energy. For this exhibition I added moving light to my palette to animate the works - oils, mixed media and electronics on canvas. I scratched, pierced, sculpted, painted, hammered, soldered, cut, poured, touched and calculated. I have used 500 LEDs, 1500 meters of wire, as well as 20 microprocessors to drive the lights. The result is full of texture, movement, music and rhythm. In the end, meditative and restful.
Tammy Griffin, 2005
"Griffin's canvases utilise traditional mediums of oil paint, acrylics, text and drawing with non-art and often industrial materials, such as resin, plastic, glass, lead, car paint and electronic components. These electronic components, visible to the viewer by means of randomly patterned flashing lights, operate on different visual levels depending on how they are embedded or submerged into the highly textured and laboured surfaces, causing reflections and refractions that reverberate across the picture plain. The value of such research and creative output, that creates a dynamic interaction between art and technology cannot be underestimated."
Dina Zoë Belluigi
Opening reception: Wednesday 8 March, 6pm
© Tammy Griffin
"Intimate Circuits"
My paintings are abstract versions of realistic portraits, private associations, self-invented marks, words and maps of energy. For this exhibition I added moving light to my palette to animate the works - oils, mixed media and electronics on canvas. I scratched, pierced, sculpted, painted, hammered, soldered, cut, poured, touched and calculated. I have used 500 LEDs, 1500 meters of wire, as well as 20 microprocessors to drive the lights. The result is full of texture, movement, music and rhythm. In the end, meditative and restful.
Tammy Griffin, 2005
"Griffin's canvases utilise traditional mediums of oil paint, acrylics, text and drawing with non-art and often industrial materials, such as resin, plastic, glass, lead, car paint and electronic components. These electronic components, visible to the viewer by means of randomly patterned flashing lights, operate on different visual levels depending on how they are embedded or submerged into the highly textured and laboured surfaces, causing reflections and refractions that reverberate across the picture plain. The value of such research and creative output, that creates a dynamic interaction between art and technology cannot be underestimated."
Dina Zoë Belluigi
Opening reception: Wednesday 8 March, 6pm
© Tammy Griffin