GRIFFIN CORDELL
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is an Interdisciplinary artist working out of his studio near Greenville SC. His work is represented by 906 Art Gallery in Greenville, SC, and exhibits both locally and nationally. He is an alum of the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities and earned his BFA in Fine Arts with a concentration in sculpture from Winthrop University.
ARTIST STATEMENT
On the Archival Memory Series
The Archival Memory Series is an investigation into archived photography, dating back to the 1940's, that lack a context or documented history of any kind. The paintings are an attempt to uncover the nuanced situations, hidden locations, and forgotten people who have forever been immortalized in a photograph never meant to have an impact on someone many years in the future.
Assumptions of relationships and narrative speak to a contrast within reality and perception. Much like any retold histories, these paintings balance on the fringe of fact and fiction, memory and illusion, and what is shown and hidden to the outside onlooker.
EDUCATION
2022
Winthrop University
BFA in Studio Art
Concentration in Sculpture
2018
South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities
High School Diploma
Concentration in Sculpture