Visual fictions and distilled theatre represents a selection of recent paintings and drawings developed as ideas towards a large-scale cycle of paintings, drawings and installation work. Using imagery from film, literature and popular culture as a point of departure, Griffiths' most recent character-driven visual fictions set up a distilled and suspended theatre of the absurd. Locked into a perpetual state of suspension these `action spaces' reflect on questions of personal and social identity, and the search for meaningful experience and connection in the everyday.
Biography
Eliza Griffiths is a Canadian artist whose practice is centered on an exploration of psychological, sexual, and interpersonal themes through the creation of invented characters in painting. Born in London, England, Griffiths immigrated to Ottawa, Canada at the age of eight. She studied Studio Art at Concordia University and did graduate studies in Art History at Carleton University. Griffiths' paintings have been widely exhibited throughout Canada and internationally, including exhibitions at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre (Buffalo); Mercer Union (Toronto); the Saidye Bronfman Center (Montreal); Platform Gallery, (London, UK); The Painting Center (NY,NY); and ARCO, (Madrid, Spain). Her work has been featured in publications such as NYArts Magazine; Canadian Art; Border Crossings; C-Magazine; ARCO Madrid, and has been extensively collected both privately and publicly. Griffiths lives in Montreal and teaches at Concordia University.
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