About Grant Wiggins: Modern Paintings and Minimalist Painting
Grant Wiggins is the only artist in Arizona to show consecutively in the 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009 editions of the Arizona Biennial, held at the Tucson Museum of Art. He also has exhibited his modern paintings twice at Phoenix Art Museum and in the inaugural TCA Biennial, at the Tempe Center for the Arts.
Grant Wiggins specializes in making modern paintings with hard edges and intense colors. He finds inspiration in hard-edge painting, vintage geometric patterns, corporate logos, and product packaging. He enjoys refashioning all of these elements into his own style of minimalist painting.
A self-taught painter, Wiggins began painting appropriated images of product packaging in 1993. He 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 style of painting developed, Wiggins abandoned irony and pop-culture iconography in favor of minimalist painting and hard-edge 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, mash-up manner.
Wiggins was born in 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. He resides in Tempe, Arizona.
Selected Modern Paintings
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Current Show: Think Small 5
Through December 20, Wiggins will be exhibiting in Think Small 5, an international invitational miniature art show. Called Telomir 9 (shown below), the modern painting he contributed to the show measures three inches square.
See Inside the Studio
The art blog at wiggz.com gives you a glimpse into Grant's studio, where you can see his newest paintings and work in progress, read about his influences, and learn about upcoming shows.
Recent Blog Posts
Fall 2009 Collection of paintings showcases new works of geometric abstraction
Featured Paintings and Prints for Sale
Fluorescent Brown (Study)
10 x 10 inches
25.4 x 25.4 cm
$125 USD + $10 shipping
Transverse 0803B Framed Print
10 x 10 inches
25.4 x 25.4 cm
$25 USD + $10 shipping