Review: Alex Griffin in The Brooklyn Rail

Alex Griffin’s solo exhibition, Passages, was reviewed by Jennifer Rose Bonilla-Edgington for The Brooklyn Rail.

This exhibition is a testament to Griffin’s ability to express a variety of concepts dealing with space and time, history and story in paintings that feel both personal and idiosyncratic. Griffin’s work speaks to dichotomies of false memory and actual experience, and to the small stillnesses of detail and intimacy. This is something that is hard to experience unless felt directly, like a trauma turned into a triumph. It is made palpable as a weight that slides off one’s shoulders, or the sweet scent of flowers that wrap around you, swirling in the wind. Griffin’s paintings aren’t only about his histories or memories, but the act of one recounting such experiences within themselves.

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ALEX GRIFFIN, Roxborough (Violet), 2021, oil and wax on panel, 12 x 12 inches.