{"id":93516,"date":"2019-10-31T13:56:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=93516"},"modified":"2019-11-04T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:54:01","slug":"james-griffith-craig-krull-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=93516","title":{"rendered":"James Griffith @Craig Krull Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Never mind Halloween, it’s been a scary week<\/em>, and overnight more fires erupted, many much closer to home. Checking the Los Angeles Times<\/em> for the grim wildfire updates brought some unexpected and sorely needed happy news: “La Brea tar is his paint. How one man turns \u2018primordial goo\u2019 into celestial art<\/a>” — a lengthy, well-deserved article on Los Angeles artist James Griffith. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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” The Earth – Wilderness Still” tar on canvas, 58″x58″,2019
James Griffith<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We all seem to be engaged, willingly or not, in a massive, crowd-sourced project to break irony. The length of the state is studded with wildfires exacerbated by climate change, while we are simultaneously involved in a lawsuit<\/a> with the federal government to settle  “whether California has the right to set its own greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards<\/em>.” It’s surreal enough that I feel like I’m living trapped in one of James’ tar paintings. (Happy Halloween!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt would add this other dimension…this primordial goo that had this history of having trapped all these animals that are now extinct<\/em>.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can catch up with his most recent work at the current exhibit “Terrestrial and Celestial”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n