Griffin Byron

I am an Australian-American artist living and working in Washington DC. My work explores the relationship between the organic and the synthetic through the deconstruction and abstraction of the world around us, often focusing on social, political and cultural issues. My philosophy concerns the impermanence of all things - how things grow, evolve and devolve by uncovering what is unseen, or hidden. By unveiling the secret messages found in all things, is, to me, emancipating and enlightening.

My technique is varied and diverse. I prefer working with oil/oil pastels, acrylics, encaustics, charcoal and watercolors. My process over the last 20 years shows an obsession with layers - layers of opacity and transparency, layers of textures, layers of meaning. I attempt to paint the changing essence of subject matter, as seen through my own sociological lens. I try to find a voice that represents the fluctuating essence of my subjects. My ambition is to distill truth from evolving hidden meanings.

My work has been exhibited throughout America and Australia. I keep a studio just outside of Washington DC.

PhD from Brown University, previous Fulbright Scholar

James McLaughlin Memorial Staff Show- September 1-30 - 2018
The Phillips Collection, Dupont Circle, Washington DC

Introversion- 2016
Marty’s Market, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Metamorphosis 1 - 2012
AS220 Res Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island

Experiments in Optics - 2009
Hillel Building, Providence, Rhode Island

Blood of a Poet - 2007
T.F. Green Hall, Providence

Perspectives - 2006
Luna Lofts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sound Pictures - 2000
Peggy Glanville Hicks House, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Distillations of Motion - 1998
Contemporary Art Space, Perth, Western Australia

Epoque - 2017
Works about Internationality, Perth, Western Australia

A Banned Sound Painting - 2012
Pixilerations Festival, Providence, Rhode Island

Staircase - 2011
Pixilerations Festival, Providence, Rhode Island

Hidden Messages - 2001
Perth Institute of contemporary arts, Perth Western Australia

Wild Reeds - 2004
Fulbright Center, New York City, New York

Socrates and the Sirens - 2003
SPECTRUM, Perth