Our January Artist of the month goes to Margaret Griffith who makes paper-based sculptures and installations in response to each nature and the constructed atmosphere.
Margaret Griffith
Los Angeles, CA
USA
Web site:
www.margaretgriffith.com
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"It’s the concept that drives the work which has led me to make use of paper extra as a sculpture and set up materials than as only a floor to attract on."
The place do you make your paper artwork?
In my studio within the Los Angeles space of Altadena.
How lengthy have you ever been working with paper?
I’ve labored with paper all through my whole skilled artist profession.
How would you describe your strategy to paper artwork?
Conceptually. It’s the concept that drives the work which has led me to make use of paper extra as a sculpture and set up materials than as only a floor to attract on.
The place do you discover inspiration?
The constructed environment- structure, sample and design, different artists, nature.
Describe your work to us in three phrases:
Large, fragile, considerate.
What are your favourite papers to work with?
Stonehenge for paper reducing and just lately Canon Ingres for ink drawings.
What device might you not dwell with out?
X-acto knife, my massive reducing mats, Lineco glue, scissors sharpies and pencils.
What’s the neatest thing about working with paper as a medium?
It’s accessible, is available in an enormous vary of sizes, it’s light-weight, feels nice to the touch and has infinite prospects.
Who’re your favourite paper artists?
Zarina, Nancy Rubins graphite drawings, Tam Van Tran, Leigh Suggs…I might go on eternally. Too many to call.
What are you engaged on in the mean time?
I’m ending up a big scale white hand minimize paper set up that hangs from ceiling to flooring for a gaggle exhibition “Let Me Speak” at The Model Gallery in Glendale, CA. The exhibition opens January twenty second and can embrace an out of doors metal sculpture as properly.
