About

Spinello Projects presents Jared McGriff at 1-54 New York with a solo booth presentation featuring a suite of new oil paintings on canvas and works on paper that depict individuals and the environments within which they exist. McGriff describes his paintings as thought experiments- spontaneous portraits generated through gestural mark-making. He paints figures in states of negotiation and performance, often bargaining with the systems by which they are governed, and with themselves. McGriff explains, “My practice is about spontaneity and memory, focusing on the use of imagined portraiture …