Yesterday, we lost the coolest of the cool. Onward, Elsa. Elsa Dorfman, photographer whose distinctive portraits illuminated her subjects and herself, dies at 83 By Mark Feeney Globe Staff,Updated May 30, 2020, 12:12 p.m. Elsa Dorfman, whose large-format Polaroid color portraits made her famous in the world of photography, and whose ebullient personality made her Read More »
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E-Blasts Check out our latest e-blast by date. Catch up on the latest from the Griffin. To receive our E-blast by email, subscribe for e-news above. May 12, 2020 E-Blast Griffin Museum May 6, 2020 E-Blast Griffin Museum April 28, 2020 E-Blast Griffin Museum April 24, 2020 E-Blast Griffin Museum April 14, 2020 E-Blast Griffin Read More »
Corona | Meg Birnbaum
Meg Birnbaum, featured in our online Corona exhibition, is a master of playing with light and life. The Griffin featured Meg’s series The Sisters of the Commonwealth in 2014. Her images seek out to highlight the quiet moments in the day, and remind us to stop, take a deep breath and wonder about the world Read More »
Corona | Julia Borissova
First seen in 2014 at the Griffin, Running to the Edge by Julia Borissova is a beautiful series mixing image and object. Finding vintage photographs and adding organic materials, Borissova creates a sensory experience creating images as unique objects. As a featured artist in our online Corona exhibition we asked Julia about her work, and Read More »
Corona | L. Aviva Diamond
Viewing the natural world and its tiny universes can lead to galactic ideas and visions. L. Aviva Diamond captures light and movement in visions that seem galactic in scale, yet look at small surroundings. Her connection to the landscape crafts celestial visions. Her image Light Stream N.2 is featured in our Corona online exhibition. We Read More »
Anton Gautama | Home Sweet Home | Griffin Online Gallery
Alongside our physical exhibitions, the Griffin hosts a series of online exhibitions in our Virtual Gallery and our Critic’s Pick Gallery. The beautiful quiet work of Anton Gautama, currently exhibited in our Virtual Gallery through July 17, is featured on our blog today. His series, Home Sweet Home, while focusing on his familiar surroundings, reminds Read More »
Corona | Barbara Ford Doyle
In our desire to reframe the conversation about Corona, taking the narrative of a dark virus and exposing it to light, cleansing our souls, our online Corona exhibition speaks to a new way of seeing. The unique view of Barbara Ford Doyle’s Artichoke is a playful look at light and dark, texture, color and our Read More »
Corona | Ellen Jantzen
Part of our Corona Exhibition, Ellen Jantzen’s image After Hours leads us into the light, reframing the daily narrative of a virus that has consumed our lives. The Griffin showcased Ellen’s work, Disturbing the Spirits in the spring of 2017. Here we are three years later, looking again to Jantzen’s work to lift us into Read More »
Corona | Deborah Bay
Deborah Bay‘s Traveling Light series plays with vibrant saturated color, angle, shape and form to create new ways of experiencing how light and reflection plays on materials. We first saw Deborah’s work at the Griffin in 2016 in our Bullet Points exhibition. This series, Traveling Light plays with the visual scale, crafting abstract visions with Read More »
June Photo Chat Chat | featuring Sean Du, Greg Jundanian, Eric Kunsman & Minny Lee
Once a month we bring together four photographers to talk about their work, and inspire us all creatively. Called the Photo Chat Chat, our next installment happens June 11th. Here is our line up. It promises to be a great conversation. Sean Du is a landscape photographer whose work aims to reconnect us with Read More »
