December 3, 2015 – January 16, 2016
CABLE GRIFFITH – Sightings
Artist Receptions
Thursday, December 3rd, 6-8pm
Thursday, January 7th, 6-8pm
Artist Talk
Saturday, December 12th at 1pm
Click on thumbnails below to view artwork, and please inquire about current pricing and availability.
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- Cable Griffith, Two Lights in the Woods, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 54 x 72 inches (SOLD)
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- Cable Griffith, 3 triangle shaped white lights slowly moving together (after Bierstadt), 2015, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, (SOLD)
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- Cable Griffith, Mysterious Light in the Woods, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 inches (SOLD)
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- Cable Griffith, Weyauwega, WI, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30 inches, (SOLD)
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- Cable Griffith, Maury Island, WA 2015, acrylic on panel, 18 x 24 inches
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- Cable Griffith, Reddish orange triangular pattern of lights – Kennewick, WA, 2015, acrylic on paper, 9 x 12 inches, framed, (SOLD)
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- Cable Griffith, Weird purple cloud at night – Bellevue, WA, 2015, acrylic on paper, 9 x 12 inches, framed
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- Cable Griffith, 5 circular disks hovering in straight line – Des Moines, WA, 2015, acrylic on paper, 9 x 12 inches, framed, (SOLD)
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- Cable Griffith, Parade of red orbs with cylindrical attachments – Edgewood, WA, 2015, acrylic on paper, 9 x 12 inches, framed
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- Cable Griffith, Giant Triangle with multicolored outlining lights – Sequim, WA, 2015, acrylic on paper, 9 x 12 inches
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- Cable Griffith, Amazing large light hovering for about an hour with a smaller light that seemed to split in two – East Renton, WA, 2015, acrylic on paper, 9 x 12 inches, framed (SOLD)
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- Cable Griffith, Diamond Shaped light, disappears and emits blue flash – Bremerton, WA, 2015, acrylic on paper, 9 x 12 inches, framed
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- Cable Griffith, Weyauwega, WI – February 2003, 2015, acrylic on paper, 9 x 12 inches, framed, (SOLD)
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- Cable Griffith, That’s not the moon – Bayonne, NM, 2015, acrylic and oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches, (SOLD)
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- Cable Griffith, Since then, I have not given up hope that I will see them again – Granada, Spain, 2015, acrylic and oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches, (SOLD)
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- Cable Griffith, I never was skeptical and always had an open mind, believe in the impossible, so to speak – Algiers, Algeria, 2015, acrylic and oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches, (SOLD)
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- Cable Griffith, Here it comes from out of nowhere! – Shoreview, MI, 2015, acrylic and oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches
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- Cable Griffith, A crude sketch of what I saw – Sister Bay, WI, 2015, acrylic and oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches
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- Cable Griffith, As me and my dad saw them at night – Bristol, VA, 2015, acrylic and oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches, (SOLD)
Artist Statement – Cable Griffith, Sightings, 2015
“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt” ― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
In the summer of 1983, a friend and I witnessed a blue cube slowly rolling through the air, above the treetops, across my family’s yard. To this day, I still have no idea what we saw. Rational explanations could suggest a variety of possibilities, but I’ve preferred to leave space in my mind for this event to be unknown and unanswered. Mystery is a fragile territory, whose borders are constantly permeated by fact-seekers and the belief in a singular truth. Within the boundary of mystery, multiple truths exist comfortably together, claiming a space where anything is possible.
Sightings is a body of work inspired by reports of unexplained phenomenon. I’ve always been fascinated in these stories and the cultural curiosity surrounding them. I’m less interested in seeking evidence from these reports and more interested in the space that they hold in popular culture. Countless websites archive ongoing reports of sightings all over the world, sometimes accompanied by drawings, photos, video, and narratives from individuals who claim to have seen something remarkable. I’ve referenced aspects of some of these reports throughout this work.
This work takes its inspiration from a combination of sources, including reports, Romantic landscape paintings, and digital collages of my own photographs from multiple hikes and camping trips. The resulting work is a mixture of truths and fictions. Romantic landscape painters like Albert Bierstadt depicted a vast and untamable world, suggesting the insignificance of man in the face of overwhelming natural forces. Today, most of that landscape has been conquered and covered by a civilization whose aspirations now aim beyond the terrestrial. In a world where anything seems possible, perhaps we give the most pause to things that don’t.
