Dreaming of the Forest

Title: Dreaming of the Forest
Artist: Gary Griffus See all items with this value
Artist Statement: Dreaming of the Forest
Format: 15 x 10.25
Medium: Acrylic, Glue, Paper
Subject: landscape See all items with this value; painting See all items with this value; paint See all items with this value; nature See all items with this value; forest See all items with this value
Description: a black and white painting of abstracted brush strokes that build up to the top of the painting. There is a paragraph of white text painted on the lower left that reads, "Recently a man in Paris got away with stealing several painting from the louvre. However after pinning the crime and getting in and out past security, he was captured. Only two blocks away his renault van ran out of fuel, when ask how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error he replied: I had no money to buy degas to make the Van Gogh."
Prison: Central Michigan Correctional Facility See all items with this value
Location in the Gallery: Zone 1
Log Number: 374-22
Source: 26th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Date: 2021