Cable Griffith is an artist, curator and educator from Burien, WA.

Griffith has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Frye Art Museum, Bellevue Arts Museum, the Whatcom Museum, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Aqua Art Fair, Seattle Art Fair, and the NEoN Digital Arts Festival in Dundee, Scotland. He has received numerous awards and public commissions, with his paintings in the collections of Microsoft, Vulcan, Weyerhaeuser, Capitol One, the Washington State Art Collection, the City of Seattle, Sound Transit, Swedish Medical Center, and the Port of Seattle. Griffith received a BFA from Boston University and an MFA from the University of Washington.

Currently, he is an Associate Professor at Cornish College of the Arts and is represented in Seattle by J. Rinehart Gallery.

My work comes from a deep appreciation of nature and a desire to communicate our shared and complex relationship to it.

Paintings and public installations reference the landscape through a process that demonstrates the relationship of parts to a whole, encouraging an exploration and awareness of micro and macro environments. Through personal observations, photographs, and memories, I translate them through reductive systems of mark-making. Creating a “visual ecosystem” is at the core of almost everything I have made.

These systems emulate a symbiotic relationship, existing as distinct elements within a collective harmony. Contemporary and ancient systems of representation combine with an interest in language and storytelling to create places that exist somewhere between virtual, real, and imagined.

PORT OF SEATTLE
CITY OF SEATTLE
LUCAS COUNTY, OH
SOUND TRANSIT
WEYERHAEUSER
VULCAN, INC
ONE REEL
MICROSOFT
SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER