About Grant Wiggins
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, Grant Wiggins has twice exhibited at Phoenix Art Museum. He also has exhibited in the inaugural TCA Biennial, at the Tempe Center for the Arts.
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. 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 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, mash-up manner.
Grant Wiggins resides in Tempe, Arizona.
Arizona Biennial '09
Grant's next show will be Arizona Biennial '09, held at Tucson Museum of Art from July 11 through September 26, 2009. He will be exhibiting Open System, a new geometric painting, shown below.
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Selected Recent Posts
Featured Pieces
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