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The Arts :: Art Show
Opening Reception- Miriam Griffin: Vermin
5:30 PM (America/Denver)
The Clay Studio of Missoula
Opening Reception- Miriam Griffin: Vermin Description:
In Vermin, Miriam treats oft-maligned creatures with sensitivity and tenderness. Bats and snakes, and even swarming flies - creatures for whom the artist herself can offer few words of praise - are carved lovingly into porcelain and painted painstakingly in gold. Bats feature most prominently in the exhibition. Their ghoulish features are rendered faithfully in part, yet are just as often simplified, exaggerated, and embellished decadently. The resulting portraits magnify the creatures' aura of supernatural mystery, and present them in light of a new mythology. Vermin also shows a strong affinity for leopard print, a material which inherently begs questions of identity and representation, nature, power, colonialism, gender, class, and sexuality - subtle yet important themes that run through the body of work as a whole.

Miriam Griffin grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, and attended school at Bard College at Simon's Rock (MA), and at The University of Montana in Missoula. She graduated from UM in 2013 with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art. Her August exhibition Vermin marks the end of three years at The Clay Studio of Missoula: first as a University of Montana summer resident in 2013, then as an intern, and finally as a long-term resident from 2014 to 2016.

Vermin will be on display at the Clay Studio of Missoula from August 5-26. Gallery events are free and open to the public.
Age Group: All Ages
Venue: The Clay Studio of Missoula
Address: 1106 Hawthorne Unit A Missoula, MT - Montana 59802
Phone: (406) 543-0509

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