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New Miniature Artwork for Think Small 6 Miniature Art Show

Monday, October 17th, 2011

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.

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Titled Deconstructed Mash-Up in Improvised Colors, this new miniature artwork reflects my recent experiments in abstract and randomized compositions. I landed upon the composition on accident, while designing something very different on my computer. When it came time to make this painting for Think Small 6 — I was working under a deadline — I kept changing the colors as I went. In essence, this painting is a study; I am considering an attempt at a larger version, using different colors, soon.

Think Small 6 is an international miniature artwork invitational, bringing together pieces by 260 artists from around the world. The show will open at Artspace on Friday, October 28. A preview gala will be held on October 27.

I have priced this painting, which is signed and framed, at the low-low price of $59.99. If you are interested in acquiring it for your collection, please contact Artspace at thinksmallart@gmail.com.

Thank you.

— Grant Wiggins

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Chaos Theory 12 in downtown Phoenix

Saturday, October 8th, 2011

The Chaos Theory 12 group exhibition opened Friday night at Legend City Studios in downtown Phoenix. Organized by longtime downtown Phoenix-based artist Randy Slack, Chaos Theory 12 brings together new works by 60 Arizona artists.

I chose to exhibit Waveform, I painting I produced in February, but had not shown before. Here are a couple of glimpses.

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chaos theory 12 phoenix

You can find the painting on the gallery’s back wall, which is visible from the gallery’s entrance, through late November. Legend City Studios is located at 521 W. Van Buren Street in Phoenix. See a Google map.

There is a good chance that the gallery will be open for Third Friday art walk festivities. I will be posting updates about special events, as I learn about them, to my blog, my Facebook page and my twitter feed.

I extend my compliments to all of the artists who are showing in this well-presented exhibition, as well as my gratitude to Randy Slack, for inviting me to participate.

— Grant Wiggins

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This fall 2011, three art shows in three states

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

This fall 2011, I will have a lively exhibition calendar: three art shows in three different regions of the U.S.

Chaos Theory 12 at Legend City Studios, 521 W. Van Buren Street in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. See Google map. On view October 7 – late November; opening party from 6pm until “???” on October 7. Organized by artist Randy Slack, the annual Chaos Theory invitational brings together dozens of highly talented Phoenix artists. The exhibition has been described as an “unofficial barometer of the art scene.” Although so many visions are represented in this show, the works all seem to harmonize magically. This will be my third Chaos Theory; view photos of the 2010 show. It is always a great honor to be invited to participate in Chaos Theory.

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The Vormance Expedition, which I will be exhibiting at Louisiana State University’s Student Union Art Gallery, starting October 23.

2011 20”x20”x20”: A National Compact Competition and Exhibit. The LSU Student Union Art Gallery at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. On view October 23 – November 30. In this an all-media competition, which is open to professional artists residing in the United States, works cannot exceed 20 inches for any one dimension. Juror Julie Sasse, chief curator of contemporary art at Tucson Museum of Art, selected 49 works by 46 artists. I will be exhibiting The Vormance Expedition, a painting I produced in 2010.

Think Small 6 International Miniature Art Biennial at Artspace Gallery, Richmond, Virginia. On view October 28 – December 18. This will be my fourth time participating in the invitational miniatures exhibition, which challenges artists to produce work that does not exceed three inches in any dimension. See the three miniature paintings I produced for Think Small in 2005, 2007 and 2009. I have not yet produced a piece for the upcoming ThinkSmall6, but I will certainly be working on something very soon. … And you’ll be the first to see it here on my blog!

— Grant Wiggins

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Paintings in the 2011 Modern Phoenix Home Tour

Monday, April 18th, 2011
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The Crouton P. Residence on 9817 N. Central Ave., most likely designed by Ralph Haver, AIA, in 1964. Photo courtesy of Aaron Kimberlin and Alison King.

Held at a variety of locations throughout metropolitan Phoenix last week, the 2011 edition of Modern Phoenix Week offered exciting opportunities to attend a range of free presentations and see inside some rare and remarkable homes within the Sunnyslope neighborhood of north-central Phoenix.

I was proud to be involved in Saturday’s Modern Phoenix Expo — offering a signed, framed print as a door prize there — and displaying my paintings within one of the 12 homes on Sunday’s home tour — the midcentury modern Crouton P. Residence at 9817 N. Central Ave., shown at right.

Here I would like to share with you photos of my paintings on display at the aforementioned residence, which was in all likelihood was designed by legendary architect Ralph Haver, AIA.

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Paintings by Grant Wiggins on view in Modern Phoenix Week home tour: “The Secrets of Sunnyslope”

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

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’m a part of this year’s Modern Phoenix Week in two fabulous ways.

modern phoenix home tour

First, I will be exhibiting several of my paintings in a Ralph Haver-designed residence on Central Ave. in Phoenix, as part of the upcoming Secrets of Sunnyslope home tour. The April 17 tour — which is sold out — offers a chance to see some of the Sunnyslope neighborhood’s finest midcentury and modern dwellings.

Second, I have contributed a signed, framed digital print as a door prize of the Modern Phoenix Expo, which will take place at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) on Saturday, April 16. (Please note: To be eligible to win a door prize, you must be present for that day’s 3:45 pm drawing.)

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New Photos of My Current Contemporary Art Exhibition in Scottsdale

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

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.

Overall, I am showing 12 paintings in 4square, all of which are shown below. In the second photo from top, you’ll see a painting by Bart Vargas hanging on the free-standing wall.

I invite you to attend this modern contemporary art show, which will be on view at Squeeze Gallery until March 24, 2011.

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Next show: 4square at Squeeze Gallery

Monday, January 31st, 2011

I’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, Bart Vargas, and Grant Wiggins

Name of Show:

4square

Gallery:

Squeeze Gallery

Gallery web site:

squeezegallery.com

Address:

4200 N. Marshall Way, Suites 2 and 3, in Scottsdale, Ariz.
See a Google map with driving directions

On display:

February 10 through March 25, 2011

Opening reception:

Thursday, February 10, starting at 7 p.m.

Gallery hours:

Monday – Saturday: Noon – 6 p.m.
Thursdays: Open until 9 p.m.

Sine Waves and Shockwaves is what I’m calling my proposed installation of paintings for the show. For weeks, my imagination has been transfixed by dynamic, undulating shapes that return to a starting point on a vertical or horizontal axis. If I can work some dimension into the equation, the results are all the more interesting.

Below is a preview of the paintings that might be appearing in the show. The official lineup is in a bit of flux, until I deliver the paintings to the gallery next Monday. Plus, the gallery may make some curatorial decisions on what should hang, based on wall space available. In other words, everything is subject to change. But that’s cool.

4square at Squeeze Gallery4square at Squeeze Gallery
4square at Squeeze Gallery

Clockwise from top left: Vertical Waveforms 1, Vertical Waveforms 2, and Monolithic Waves.

I hope you can check out the exhibition. More details about the show will be posted here in the upcoming weeks. In the meantime, I’ll be at the easel, painting away with furious gusto.

— Grant Wiggins

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Chaos Theory 11 Art Show Update

Monday, October 25th, 2010

I’d like to share with you a pair of images of my work hanging in the Chaos Theory 11 art show at Legend City Studios, 521 W. Van Buren, in downtown Phoenix. See a Google map for Legend City Studios here.

Paintings by Randy Slack and Grant Wiggins at Chaos Theory 11 Art Show Phoenix
Chaos Theory 11 Art Show
Top: Randy Slack's massive, eye-popping Stammbaum (left) with Hexagonal Banfield Forcefield, my newest modern graphic painting, in the foreground. Above: Hexagonal Banfield Forcefield among works by Jason Rudolph Peña and Joshua Rhodes (both part of the Five and Six Gallery collective), as well as Rick Toerne (his great work is obscured, sadly), and Pete Deise (metal sculpture).

Uniting the work of more than 50 Phoenix, Arizona artists, this year’s Chaos Theory appears to be a huge hit. “Chaos Theory didn’t necessarily make First Friday all that chaotic,” writes Phoenix New Times in a slideshow introduction, “but it did provide some of the more creative and cutting edge artwork of the evening.”

See my previous blog post about Chaos Theory 11 here.

Chaos Theory 11 will remain on view through Sunday, November 21. The show’s final weekend will coincide with a pair of concerts by the Downtown Chamber Series on November 20 and 21.

— Grant Wiggins

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Farewell to ‘Thanks for Being with Us’

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Sunday, October 10 marked the closing of Thanks for Being with Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, which had been on view at Tucson Museum of Art (TMA) since mid-July.

Bringing a spirit of celebration and closure to the exhibition, Nielsen — a professor of dance at University of Arizona — choreographed a dance titled Looking Up/Looking Down. Performed by 24 University of Arizona dancers, the piece was conceived with the TMA’s signature, spiraling square ramp in mind. With characteristic inventiveness, Nielsen intended for the performance to be viewed from above. Shoulder-to-shoulder, with little room to spare, the audience watched enthusiastically from the concrete helix.

Thanks for Being with Us Closing Dance: Looking Up, Looking Down
Hundreds gathered to view Looking Up / Looking Down, the dance choreographed by Doug Nielsen to accompany Thanks for Being with Us. In the distance is one of my paintings, Hands.

A physically demanding performance that is accompanied by numerous tempo changes and otherworldly sound effects, Looking Up/Looking Down references many of the works in Thanks for Being with Us. Dancers twist their mouths in homage of Bruce Nauman’s Studies for Holograms series. They point up toward the audience just as the boy points to his obeisant pet chick in Dean Styers’s Now Do You Understand? Rubbing their hands together, dancers re-enact my neopop artwork, Hands.

“With dance, when it’s over, it’s gone! But your painting will remain!” Doug remarked to me in an after-dance chat. He observes this essential fact in the exhibition’s catalog, as well: “… [Artists] can get famous after they die, my dances evaporate. There is something about the permanence of visual art. […] When I wake up in the morning, the art on the wall is still here, but my dance at Stevie Eller [Dance Theater] has disappeared. I go back to the studio and there is nothing there — it is a totally empty space.”

To be sure, dance is an in-the-moment, ephemeral medium. It must be experienced in time, much like film. Conversely, a painting can remain on a wall indefinitely. However, there is no guarantee that a painting will survive time. Ask any museum conservator that! Likewise, we change, as viewers. Our personal, individual relationships to any given work of art will change throughout our lives.

I am sure I am not alone in admitting that I was sad to say goodbye to the show. It is frightening how quickly time passes; not long ago, I was envisioning the exhibition as if it were several months away. Now it is a memory. Like all things, fleeting and impermanent.

I am thankful to have been there.

— Grant Wiggins

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Next show: Chaos Theory 11, opening October 1 at Legend City Studios

Monday, September 27th, 2010
Chaos Theory 11

Starting this Friday, October 1, I will be exhibiting a new painting along with works by more than 50 of Phoenix’s most well-respected artists in Chaos Theory. The much-anticipated 11th edition of this invitational group show will be held at Legend City Studios, 521 W. Van Buren, in downtown Phoenix. Google map and directions here.

Opening night festivities, which are open to the public, will take place between 6 p.m. and midnight. Admission is free. The show will conclude at the end of November.

For this year’s Chaos Theory, I will be showing a modern graphic painting titled Hexagonal Banfield Forcefield.

In last year’s Chaos Theory 10, I showed SuperAcid Autobacs Ambilify, a fluorescent-paint packed abstract acrylic art work.

Artists exhibiting in this year’s Chaos Theory include: Rafael Navarro, Joshua Rhodes, Rick Toerne, Steven J Yazzie, James Angel, David Dauncey, Suzie Falk, Brent Bond, Steve Hoffberger, Luiz Gutierrez, Melissa Martinez, Kate Twist, Bobby Castaneda, Lara Plecas, Jeff Falk, Annie Lopez, Michael Zep, Dave Quan, Danielle Hacche, Brian Boner, Christina Ramirez, Fausto Fernandez, Shauna Thibault, Greg Esser, Pete Deise, Carrie Marill, Cindy Dach, Hector Ruiz, Molten Brothers, Alex Krump, Jesse Rieser, William LeGoullon, Leslie Englert Yazzie, Henry Schoebel, Leon Lucero, Joe Willie Smith, John Colona, Colin Chillag, Kathleen D Cone, Grant Wiggins, Matt Priebe, John Randall Nelson, Eddie Shea, Sergio Aguirre, Steve Gompf, Jason Rudolph Pena, Jehu, Randy Slack, John Balinkie, and Brandon Sullivan.

I sincerely thank Randy Slack for inviting me to participate in Chaos Theory 11. It should be a great show and a lot of fun.

— Grant Wiggins

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