Ryan Griffis, “American Dreams”, review, New Art Examiner, Vol. 29, No. 4, Dec.-Jan. (PDF)
communications
communications
2000
materials: prints of e-mail correspondance between artist and gallery director, cd containing testemonials from laborors in the semiconductor manufacturing industry, cd player, plexiglass, reference binders containing downloads from electronics companies, and labor interest web sites, mirror printed with bar code, shelf, hardware
savings & values
security guards
a mythology of boys and girls
you will always be surrounded by friends
I could live my life in a nutshell and declare myself king of the world had I not bad dreams
I could live my life in a nutshell and declare myself king of the world had I not bad dreams
1999
Produced for Beeswax, Brackish Water and Junipers, an exhibition of aesthetic representations of environmental concerns, Gray Gallery, East Carolina University.
Materials: oxygen tent, Jansen’s History of Art text, desk chair, pedestal, binder containing data detailing the environmental policies and political campaign contributions of corporations sponsoring museum exhibitions locally and nationally.