Howard Griffin Gallery

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The Howard Griffin Gallery was established in September 2013 by Richard Howard-Griffin in Shoreditch, London.

The Gallery represents a group of contemporary artists who are not wholly dependent on traditional institutions and structures within the art world for success. Typically a thread of public art runs through the work of represented artists and the Gallery combines working with artists from the contemporary disciplines of street art and graffiti with artists from more tangential public art backgrounds.

Howard Griffin Gallery specialises in large scale debut exhibitions. However, the exhibiting artists are already renowned for one reason or another, be it for executing large scale murals around the world, sitting drawing on a busy High Street or painting the Berlin Wall illegally for years.

Howard Griffin Gallery is based in Shoreditch, London and the 220 square metre two level gallery space plays home to an extensive exhibition schedule. The Gallery, on occasion, launches off site exhibits with activity planned in New York and Los Angeles over the course of 2014.[1][2]

Exhibitions

Past exhibitions

The gallery's first show was with renowned UK artist John Dolan. It occurred from September 19 to November 19, 2013. The exhibition entitled George the Dog John the Artist[3] was John Dolan's first exhibition following a period of three years during which John Dolan sat on the pavement drawing on the opposite side the street to the gallery's location.[4][5]

The gallery's second show was with Phlegm,[6] one of the world's most famous street artists and renowned for painting large murals internationally.[7] The exhibition, entitled The Bestiary,[8] took place from 1 February to 25 March. The show comprised a large-scale installation in clay and plaster which took Phlegm six weeks to construct in situ.[9][10]

Thierry Noir's first significant solo exhibition took place at the Howard Griffin Gallery[11] from 4 April 2014 to 5 May 2014. This show was a retrospective of Noir's thirty year artistic career.[12]

Mexican artist Pablo Delgado's first significant solo show took place at the gallery from 16 May to 8 June 2014[13] Delgado is known for abstracting existing images and rearranging them into new surreal scenes and compositions. Entitled 'Even Less', the exhibition reflects Delgado's obsessive focus in minimising and reducing his work to its smallest expression.[14][15][16]

Bob Mazzer's debut photographic exhibition took place at the Howard Griffin Gallery[17] from 12 June 2014 to July 2014. This was the first time that Bob Mazzer's iconic body of work was ever exhibited in a gallery.

While working as a projectionist in a porn cinema in Central London during the 1980s, Bob Mazzer began photographing on the London underground during his daily commute, creating irresistibly joyous pictures alive with humour and humanity. This photographic social history then remained unseen and unexhibited until recently begin discovered.[18][19][20][21]

John Dolan, had a second exhibition at Howard Griffin Gallery: 'John and George', which run from17 Jul 2014 to 21 Sep 2014. [22]

This show was based on his book which was published by Random House in July 2014.[23]

Current exhibitions

Giacomo Bufarini, better known as RUN, is an Italian-born artist that has been staging a solo exhibition at the gallery since November 2014. There will be a closing show on Thursday 29 January and the exhibition will end on Monday 2nd February. Based in London since 2007, Run now balances his street art with his studio practice, showing a more detailed, complex and subtle side to his work.

Future exhibitions

Mehdi Ghadyanloo, is a visual artist from Tehran, Iran. For Ghadyanloo, the purpose of street art is to 'beautify' his grey and polluted city. Using bright colours on a hyper-real scale, he creates escapist, surreal dreamscapes that form part of his own fictional endless story. His imagery portrays impossible scenes and gravity defying figures from radically altered perspectives. [24]

References

  1. ↑ Street art - over the Web and into the gallery, Reuters, 2014
  2. ↑ London gallery aims to be conduit for new wave of street artists, South China Morning Post, 2014
  3. ↑ George The Dog, John The Artist
  4. ↑ Homeless man John Dolans artwork on show, BBC News, 2013
  5. ↑ We meet Shoreditch street art sketcher John Dolan, TimeOut London, 2013
  6. ↑ Phlegm's Blogsite
  7. ↑ Street artist Phlegm’s murals from around the world, The Guardian, 2014
  8. ↑ The Bestiary
  9. ↑ Photos from Phlegm's "The Bestiairy" at the Howard Griffin Gallery
  10. ↑ In The World Of Phlegm
  11. ↑ Thierry Noir: A Retrospective
  12. ↑ From the Berlin Wall to the gallery wall, Design Week, 2014
  13. ↑ Pablo Delgado: Even Less, Howard Griffin Gallery, 2014
  14. ↑ Pablo Delgado, The Telegraph, 2014
  15. ↑ Pablo Delgado, The Londonist, 2014
  16. ↑ Pablo Delgado, The Hackney Gazette, 2014
  17. ↑ Bob Mazzer: Underground, Howard Griffin Gallery
  18. ↑ Bob Mazzer, The Telegraph, 2014
  19. ↑ Bob Mazzer, The Guardian, 2014
  20. ↑ Bob Mazzer, Complex, 2014
  21. ↑ Bob Mazzer, CNN, 2014
  22. ↑
  23. ↑ john and George: The Dog Who Changed My Life, Random House, 2014
  24. ↑ Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Howard Griffin Gallery

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