About Grant Wiggins
Grant Wiggins was born in suburban Cleveland, Ohio in 1973. He holds an MBA from Arizona State University; an MA in English from Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois; and a BA in English from Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio.
A self-taught painter, Grant Wiggins in 1993 began painting appropriated images of product packaging. His called his early style AcidPop, a next generation of Pop Art that portrayed mass-culture consumer products with an anti-commercial Dadaist sensibility.
As his work developed, Grant Wiggins eschewed irony and pop-culture iconography, and instead began to explore his interest in minimalist painting. At the same time, he continued to experiment with new approaches to composition and color combinations in the other stylistic extreme—what he calls maximalism. This "over-the-top, anything goes" graphic art style combines patterns, lines, and colors in a mix-and-clash manner.
The only artist in Arizona to show consecutively in the 2003, 2005 and 2007 editions of the Arizona Biennial, held at the Tucson Museum of Art, Grant Wiggins has twice exhibited at Phoenix Art Museum. Through January 10, 2009, he is one of 26 Arizona artists showing in the juried TCA Biennial: Paper, at the Tempe Center for the Arts.
Grant Wiggins resides in Tempe, Arizona. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening.
Now showing in TCA Biennial: Paper and Painting
This fall I'm exhibiting in two juried shows: TCA Biennial: Paper, at the Tempe Center for the Arts (Tempe, Arizona; through January 10, 2009) and Painting, at Foundry Art Center (St. Charles, Missouri; through November 21).
More about TCA Biennial Paper in my blog post Ekeliges Zeug!: New 'paper construction'.
More about Painting in my blog post:Upcoming show: 'Painting' at Foundry Art Centre.
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