Marin Griffith was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. She recieved a BFA from The 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 visual exploration of form, margins, grief, and everything in between. Using language, abstraction, and iconographic figuration these objects work to illustrate delicate contemplations we often keep to ourselves. Using both traditional and found material elements; The combination of sewn fabric, objects, painted and printed information work to articulate myriads of feeling we all share. Coded language, patterns, and layered images are cut up and sewn back together in a cyclical relationship to scrap materials and the re-use of old work to make new things. The artworks are bright, playful, noisy, and commanding. Blending recognizable pop culture imagery with collaged, headstrong, jittery, and ambitious ways of making. The works play between a tension of ernest sentiment and a blurry desire to be seen and held.
Griffith also maintains a thorough poster-making practice that speaks predominantly to Jazz and a broader diaspora of sounds. The practice is playful, and in a direct loving relationship to the music she listens to and the musicians she’s in community with. The hand-made lettering, and designed images seep into the painted and sewn works, where Griffith’s worlds collide and design references show up in her fine arts practice.
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