Sunday, February 19, 2023

Bright Yellow Frames at Station Gallery W/ David Griggs

 Lets talk about these bright yellow, asymmetric-block frames filled with strange portraits, of aliens and monsters, or, are they simply some sort of shape-shifting selfies. I mean maybe he is, maybe David Griggs is an Alien. And why not, why wouldn't an Alien be an Artist and let the world know with a wall of Portraits? A rainbow of colourful portraits, during WORLD PRIDE, in Sydney... (I said to David, "I like your selfies" and he did not deny they were not, selfies!). So a perfect time, to OUT oneself as an Alien or maybe even, a Theosophist (lots of good colourist company there). But back to the frames. Some of my friends did not like them at all - I asked them. I loved them! I loved the frames and I really liked the portraits. The large very-colourful paintings are very nice too. What came first, the Alien, or the Alien EGG - so colourful. But I mostly liked the wall of portraits in unusually shaped, rectangular yellow frames. This sort of frame reminds me of DADA & Surrealist art works where the frame was subsumed into the image or was rendered in some unique, anti-bourgeois way (No florid carving or gold leaf thanks). If you are in Sydney it's certainly worth adding Station gallery and David's show to your Eastern Suburbs gallery loop.

Portrait of David Griggs at STATION, Sydney in front of his wall of portraits in yellow frames.
David Griggs at STATION, Sydney

Selfies? (DAVID GRIGGS The sky is the safe place)

'The Mystic 1' by David Griggs

A man with long blonde hair viewd from behind at an art show in Sydney, Station Gallery, 2023.

Portrait of David Griggs (V sign) at STATION, Sydney in front of his wall of portraits in yellow frames.
David Griggs (V) at STATION, Sydney

Art crowd at Station Gallery,  Sydney for David Griggs, The sky is the safe place.
Art crowd at Station Gallery,  Sydney for David Griggs, The sky is the safe place.

 

DAVID GRIGGS
The sky is the safe place
17 February – 11 March 2023
STATION | SYDNEY
Suite 201, 20 Bayswater Road Potts Point

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