Vivienne Griffin

16th August - 29th September 2007

Four is pleased to present a solo show of new and developing works by Vivienne Griffin. Griffin's multi-disciplinary practice employs a variety of materials and media. Often motivated by place or circumstances, her work has been primarily site specific, utilizing, at times, video, found electronic equipment, drawing, and text.

Exploiting familiar objects and languages, her work reinvents their everyday meaning through personal manipulation. Chance encounters the banal to become a source of amusement. While new content is inserted into a space where generic text or forms exist, this language deals with private sentiments in a public space, with the individual and the social.

Works display a restrained gesture,suggesting a larger, more epic tone. Scale is used as a tactic to bring the monumental into the vernacular of the ordinary. Quotidian tactical interventions merge the private and the public arenas.

Born in Dublin, with a BFA from Crawford in Cork, Vivienne is currently living and working in New York where she is a pursuing a MFA at Hunter College.

 

FOUR is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council.

Opening Hours: Tuesday to Saturday: 12 to 5 pm