Marin Griffith was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. She received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Painting with a concentration in media, technology and cultural studies. She is a multi-media artist currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
Griffith’s work is a playful consideration of form, language and iconographic figuration. She uses dissected words and busy patterns to slow the viewer's gaze and illustrate the delicate contemplations we often keep to ourselves. She reflects on her West Indian and Jewish background, making work that address contrast, secrecy, grief, matriarchy, and coded language. Using both traditional and found material elements; The combination of sewn fabric, objects, painted and printed information to form large-scale painted textiles that are bright, noisy, and commanding. In her textiles, she blends archived pop culture imagery with collaged, headstrong, jittery, and ambitious ways of making. Griffith’s work plays between a tension of earnest sentimentality and the intricate desire to be seen and held.
Griffith also maintains a poster-making practice that speaks predominantly to Jazz and a broader diaspora of sounds. Her process is in a loving relationship to the music she listens to and the musicians she’s in community with. She often pulls inspiration from dancehall typography, album cover artwork, and scrappy independent publications. Her hand-made lettering, and graphic design instincts use different muscles but the same aesthetic choices often seep into her painted and sewn works. The poster practice represents a space where Griffith’s interests collide.
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