Contemporary

Untitled #7
Untitled #7
Artist Kojo Griffin
     nationality American
     birth-death 1971-b. 1971
Creation date about 2004
Materials acrylic and graphite collage on panel
Dimensions 47 13/16 x 83 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.
Credit line Henry F. and Katherine D. DeBoest Memorial Fund
Accession number 2004.56
Copyright © Kojo Griffin
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A child is snatched from his bicycle, the strong arm of his abductor muffling his cries. In an adjacent pane, concerned parents, rendered in sketched gray tones, call out for their missing child.

Kojo Griffin, who studied child psychology at Morehouse College, uses animal figures to present vignettes of human interactions. Griffin uses this device to represent social situations ranging from the mundane (a tired parent with a crying infant) to the truly traumatic (a firing squad, a child abduction as seen here) without referring to particular types or clichés. The arena for these activities is a landscape of abstract graphic design.


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despair, fear, geometric, hybrids, negative shapes, non-representational, symbolic!!, That this piece is untitled adds to its mystery. To me it says even elephants live in risk.
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