Artist Lecture by Rashawn Griffin @ Hunter's new MFA building

The new building is beautiful and the lecture was good too. Griffin's a NYC artist living and working in Brooklyn. 

Rashawn Griffin (http://gassergrunert.net/test/?cat=1141) was born in 1980 in Los Angeles, California. Living and working in New York City, he received a MFA from Yale University in 2005. He was a 2006 resident of the Studio Museum AIR program. His work has been exhibited widely, including the 2008 Whitney Biennial, a the two-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem (RSVP), as well as “Freeway Balconies” at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Germany, and “Black Now” at the Longwood Gallery in the Bronx, New York, curated by Collier Schorr and Fred Wilson respectively. Recently the subject of the solo exhibition “A hole-in-the-wall country” at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas.

“Rashawn Griffin’s diverse practice is grounded in the poetic investigation of social space. Using found everyday materials, from bed sheets to decorative tassels; Griffin’s elegant compositions awaken displaced memories of a collective experience, taking us on a journey that collapses time and space” Amy Smith-Stewart