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Join artist Phillip Griswold for an artist talk on Saturday, January 8, at 2:30pm. This event will be streamed live via our instagram channel: @slate_art. Phillip Griswold will talk about his work currently on veiw at SLATE Contemporary gallery as part of a group exhibition titled MODERN LANDSCAPE, also featuring the work of Jennifer Nehrbass. Phillip Griswold’s interest is in connecting light, space, and geometric form to express the ineffable perception of time. In his paintings, lines disrupt organic elements, shifting vantage points and perspectives on brightly colored compositions. In this body of works, Phillip Griswold asks the question “is color real?” A mountain for instance, looks blue or purple from a distance, but appears grey or brown up close. At dawn or dusk that same mountain can take on all the colors of the rainbow, whereas at midday it presents as a haze of pale tones. In Crystal Lake and First Light, the rainbow slices in the top right corner of the paintings show sections of the scene filtered by colored light at different times of day. In this way, Griswold is attempting to represent more than one moment in time, showing us not just a snapshot like one that a camera would take, but the sum of an experience that takes place in time, and a narrative of change and evolution that we experience in our senses and know in our minds, but cannot see in a single instant.