Rashawn Griffin

Rashawn Griffin received his MFA from Yale University and currently lives and works in New York. His moody, nostalgic, and often somber paintings and assemblages spring from a poetic investigation of social space and personal memory. His work utilizes evocative everyday detritus and materials culled from his personal life, as well as wistful and romantic-utopian literary sources such as Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way and Ursula K. LeGuin’s Wizard of Earthsea. His work was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.