| Spinello Projects is delighted to announce the debut solo show, Alone, Together, by Miami-based artist Jared McGriff. The exhibition runs through October 31st, 2019. Quiet is as kept. McGriff uses imagined portraiture and landscape to explore the relationships between people and their environment. A suite of over twenty paintings on paper and canvas seek to generate questions and conversation about how we perceive intimacy and familiarity. McGriff’s gestural use of multiple paint mediums composes portraits based on memories, set in blank spaces, creating narratives in the viewer’s imagination. McGriff is concerned with people feeling belonging in the world, and recording that transient feeling. Moments where impermanence threatens communal connections, whether willful or not, are central to these paintings. The individual, is pinned in contrast to the group, where the group is made up of individuals; each person is struggling to belong and hold their social relationships as cloely as they have to hold on to their self. His loose handling of his materials recalls a face of someone in our own memories, reflect-ing back at us. McGriff states, “spontaneous communion between memory fragments and materials…develop narratives about how the individual relates to the group.” Alone, Together reaches towards what’s familiar, through these portraits and stories, to ask what’s more important to us, connecting deeper with ourselves or with each other? Jared McGriff (Los Angeles, 1977) received his BA in architecture from the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and his MBA in Finance from New York University in 2008. Group exhibitions of his work have been staged at venues in San Francisco, Oakland, and Miami. He lives and works in Miami and is represented by Spinello Projects. Jared McGriff’s paintings are inspired by visual distortions, memory fragments and ephemera. Capturing the cultural cues and transitory familiarity of his surroundings, McGriff’s work is an accessible depiction of the human condition. The lives of imagined subjects are experiences of cultures both interrupted and, summarily, monetized. His time spent in the American West have manifested voyages distilled in paintings through simple line, color and composition. Ideas related to isolation, estrangement, and spontaneity punctuate his sketches, drawings and painting. Individual portraits communicate how individuals relate to their immediate environment and themselves. Portraits with multiple sitters display interactions to and with one another in the context of a unit. Distortions and exaggerations of limbs, postures, and features are met within compositions that further the discussion of these ambiguous relationships. Many of these works begin with abstract mark-making and sketches using pencil, ballpoint pen, ink, followed by oil or pastel stick, then watercolor and ink wash layers with further layers in watercolor, oil and acrylic paint. The opening reception takes place September 13, 2019 at 6 PM. Directions are here |
Spinello Projects Debut Watercolorist Jared McGriff Solo Show, Alone,Together
