Artist Statement:
I am an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. The focus of my current work is sustainability and entwined environmental systems. My artistic practice strives to explore and reveal the inevitable imbalanced relationship between humans and the planet. I research and explore both the history of human exceptionalism as well as the human condition as it relates to our consciousness and attitude towards nature. As evidenced by overpopulation, our development and use of technology, cultural myths and beliefs systems as tools exploit and dominate our environment. I see humanity as being diametrically opposed to the equilibrium of the planet as a living organism.
My ongoing artistic practice also explores themes of human experience through the poetic language of light. I create digital photographic collage compositions from known and unknown locations to challenge the normative conventions of subject and context found in art. Using light and contextual displacement of images I offer the viewer a new experience in a timeless space. My abstract portraits emerge from these imagined environments into an experimental world that creates a new and diverse reality.
I am an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. The focus of my current work is sustainability and entwined environmental systems. My artistic practice strives to explore and reveal the inevitable imbalanced relationship between humans and the planet. I research and explore both the history of human exceptionalism as well as the human condition as it relates to our consciousness and attitude towards nature. As evidenced by overpopulation, our development and use of technology, cultural myths and beliefs systems as tools exploit and dominate our environment. I see humanity as being diametrically opposed to the equilibrium of the planet as a living organism.
My ongoing artistic practice also explores themes of human experience through the poetic language of light. I create digital photographic collage compositions from known and unknown locations to challenge the normative conventions of subject and context found in art. Using light and contextual displacement of images I offer the viewer a new experience in a timeless space. My abstract portraits emerge from these imagined environments into an experimental world that creates a new and diverse reality.
Bio:
Coleman Griffith, is an interdisciplinary artist and architect, who lives and works in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. In addition to his artistic practice, Coleman is a contributor to Full Blede, a fine arts publication in Los Angeles. His first article titled ‘The Quality of Experience that Remains’, which explores memory and meaning in his art, educational and architectural projects is featured in Full Blede’s Volume 5 ‘The Artifact’. Launched at Chimento Contemporary Gallery, LA in June 2018. His second contribution “Lot and his Daughters, After Guercino” was featured in Issue Seven: The Continuant. Launched at Noysky Projects on Sunday, January 13, 2019.
Born in Washington DC., to Cynthia Littlefield, a fine art painter and Coleman Griffith Sr. a civil engineer. He grew up in the cosmopolitan suburbs of Northern Virginia. He received his bachelor's degree in Architecture from The Catholic University of America in Washington DC. and his Masters Degree in Architecture and Urban Design in 1982 from the Ohio State University to the Graduate School of Architecture. In 1993 was hired to head the architecture department at Pasadena City College where he worked as a full time educator until retiring in 2015. Since retiring from full-time education, Coleman has remained involved in both architectural and the artistic communities of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. He is a member of the Executive Westmont Arts Council and the Abstract Arts Collective in Santa Barbara. He regularly attends Art openings in both cities each week. He is a regular guest reviewer or ‘juror’ of student architectural projects in Los Angeles area University programs, including USC, Otis College of Art and Design, Woodbury University Berlin study abroad program and Cal State Pomona.
Coleman Griffith, is an interdisciplinary artist and architect, who lives and works in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. In addition to his artistic practice, Coleman is a contributor to Full Blede, a fine arts publication in Los Angeles. His first article titled ‘The Quality of Experience that Remains’, which explores memory and meaning in his art, educational and architectural projects is featured in Full Blede’s Volume 5 ‘The Artifact’. Launched at Chimento Contemporary Gallery, LA in June 2018. His second contribution “Lot and his Daughters, After Guercino” was featured in Issue Seven: The Continuant. Launched at Noysky Projects on Sunday, January 13, 2019.
Born in Washington DC., to Cynthia Littlefield, a fine art painter and Coleman Griffith Sr. a civil engineer. He grew up in the cosmopolitan suburbs of Northern Virginia. He received his bachelor's degree in Architecture from The Catholic University of America in Washington DC. and his Masters Degree in Architecture and Urban Design in 1982 from the Ohio State University to the Graduate School of Architecture. In 1993 was hired to head the architecture department at Pasadena City College where he worked as a full time educator until retiring in 2015. Since retiring from full-time education, Coleman has remained involved in both architectural and the artistic communities of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. He is a member of the Executive Westmont Arts Council and the Abstract Arts Collective in Santa Barbara. He regularly attends Art openings in both cities each week. He is a regular guest reviewer or ‘juror’ of student architectural projects in Los Angeles area University programs, including USC, Otis College of Art and Design, Woodbury University Berlin study abroad program and Cal State Pomona.
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