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		<title>New &#8216;Simple&#8217; Geometric Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present to you my newest painting &#8212; a &#8220;simple&#8221; geometric artwork I call Sapion. Simple geometric art: Sapion. Acrylic on canvas. 48 inches (122 cm) square. 2011. What makes this painting simple? Geometric art, as a genre, is characterized by repetitive shapes and motifs that often fill the entire picture plane, forming an allover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poster for Maricopa Community Colleges Student Art Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new poster, based upon one of my recent paintings, will soon be circulating throughout the 10 campuses of Maricopa Community Colleges (MCC), promoting the college system&#8217;s 26th Annual League for Innovation Student Art Competition. Posters for Maricopa Community Colleges&#8217; 26th Annual League for Innovation Student Art Competition. The poster is based upon my 2010 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Miniature Artwork for Think Small 6 Miniature Art Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present to you the smallest painting I have ever made: A three-inch by 2.5-inch (7.62 cm x 6.35 cm) miniature artwork for the upcoming Think Small 6 miniature art show, held at Artspace in Richmond, Virginia. Titled Deconstructed Mash-Up in Improvised Colors, this new miniature artwork reflects my recent experiments in abstract and randomized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paintings by Grant Wiggins on view in Modern Phoenix Week home tour: &#8220;The Secrets of Sunnyslope&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Win a framed digital print, signed by the artist, as a door prize of the free Modern Phoenix Week Expo, April 16 I am proud to say that I&#8217;m a part of this year’s Modern Phoenix Week in two fabulous ways. First, I will be exhibiting several of my paintings in a Ralph Haver-designed residence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three New Large Original Art Paintings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artistically speaking, my year started off in creative overdrive. Over the course of the first nine weeks of 2011, I muscled my way through 14 paintings, covering 12,436 square inches (more than 86 square feet, or 8 square meters) and incorporating practically every color in the spectrum. Today, I am finally able to take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Photos of My Current Contemporary Art Exhibition in Scottsdale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My current art show — 4square, a modern contemporary art exhibition at Squeeze Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona — opened Thursday evening. I had a marvelous time. Some of my favorite people in all of Phoenix showed up to say hello and see new works by Richard Garrison, Ryan Peter Miller, Bart Vargas and yours truly. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next show: 4square at Squeeze Gallery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very pleased to announce that I will be showing in a group exhibition at Squeeze Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. The exhibition brings together four artists who incorporate geometric shapes into their art; hence, the name of the show is 4square. Official details about the show are as follows: Artists: Richard Garrison, Ryan Peter Miller, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Modern Graphic Painting: Hexagonal Banfield Forcefield</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to introduce you to my newest painting, Hexagonal Banfield Forcefield. Measuring 81 centimeters high by 61 inches wide (32 x 24 inches), this modern graphic painting was produced between August 19 – 31, 2010, and underwent a few minor adjustments since. The inspiration for this piece is a football (soccer) shirt worn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Hands&#8217; now showing in &#8216;Thanks for Being with Us&#8217; at Tucson Museum of Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday evening Tucson Museum of Arts hosted the opening of Thanks for Being with Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection. I was there to celebrate the occasion, and to congratulate Doug Nielsen, a University of Arizona dance professor who owns two of my paintings. In this exhibition I am showing Hands, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new modern abstract canvas painting: &#8216;Flat Space, Imagined Place&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flat Space, Imagined Place is the title of the modern abstract canvas painting I have been working on throughout this month. Compositionally, this painting reflects the busier, more improvisational &#8220;maximal&#8221; side of my work. It measures 111.8 cm high by 81.3 cm wide (44 x 32 inches). The medium is acrylic on canvas. In the [...]]]></description>
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