Michela Griffo – Outrage
Outrage
New works on paper by Michela Griffo
May 15 – June 30, 2023
at SPOKE Gallery, SPOKE/MEDICINE WHEEL, 844 Summer Street, South Boston, MA 02127
Outrage by Michela Griffo features new and recent small works on paper that she refers to as “Observations”. Michela has also exhibiting four drawings on paper from an on-going series that draws upon well-known imagery from Disney animated fairy tales.
Since the early 1980’s, Michela Griffo has been creating impeccable drawings and paintings based in a realist figurative tradition that echo the political and layered meanings found in history painting, historical portraiture painting and in contemporary comic book genre. Her works offer biting commentary on the reality that society has chosen to construct and believe, while at the same time calling attention to the so called truth or the actual reality that society as a whole avoids acknowledging.
About Michela Griffo
Michela Griffo (b.1949) is an artist and activist who came of age in New York City in the 1950s and 60s. Griffo studied at the University of Michigan, but ultimately established herself as a New York based artist after graduating from Pratt Institute with a Master’s in photography and a Minor in Painting. Griffo was an early member of the Redstockings and a founding member of the Radicalesbians, Lavender Menace and the Gay Liberation Front. Michela risked her life with other queer and lesbian activists on the front lines of the Gay Rights Movement paving the way for younger generations to come out and live safe and productive lives.
Related Links
Addresses Project’s interview with Michela Griffo
Michela Griffo’s webshop on Artsy.net