serious fun — Tinney Contemporary

Tinney Contemporary is proud to present Serious Fun, a solo exhibition by Martica Griffin. The show runs from Saturday, July 12 through August 16, 2025. The opening reception will be on Saturday, July 12, 2025 from 2 to 9 pm. The exhibition will take place as a part of the second annual Art Between the Avenues event, in space 61 on the second floor of the Arcade.

Martica Griffin’s latest exhibition features mixed media collage works that mark a departure from her usual painting practice. This body of work emerged from a Shakerag workshop, led by local artist Jodi Hays, which reinvigorated Griffin’s long term love-affair with collage. Bringing in found materials, these dimensional assemblages build upon her patchwork style. The commonplace objects employed in their making provide artistic constraints as well as imbuing the work with a sense of immediacy. Dyed and folded paper, corrugated cardboard, and faded printed material create vibrant, textured geometric compositions that convey the playful process of their making.

Nashville, Tennessee-based artist Martica Griffin uses energetic lines, organic structures, geometric forms and sensual colors to create her works. She primarily works in abstraction on canvas and paper using a wide variety of mediums including acrylic, oil, collage, plaster and crayon. Her work is characterized by layers of color, lines of gesture and a combination of natural and architectural shapes. Her visual language reflects landscape, popular culture, and history.

A native of Valdosta, Georgia, Griffin graduated from East Carolina University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting. She has done post-graduate work at the School for Visual Arts in New York and studied with internationally acclaimed painters. Her work resides in various public and private collections.

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