NADA New York 2024

The poster-sized colored pencil and graphite drawings are symbolic still-lifes culling aspects of Griffo’s identity or calling to some glossed-over, potentially dark, truth. Most of this series, too, was lost, stolen or destroyed in years past. They are the first of Griffo’s work to incorporate renderings of childhood paraphernalia like pages from comic books with reworded conversations, as seen in But Mom, Ginger and I… and Honest Muffy, I’m Not a Juvenile Delinquent, a narrative exposé component that is central to her most recent bodies of work. “They are part of the transition into the work made when I started painting again in 2002, where I use comic-type inserts as the Greek chorus. Honest Muffy… was the beginning of using an alter-ego to speak the truth of what I saw happening.”