Howard Griffin Gallery
The Howard Griffin Gallery was established in September 2013 by Richard Howard-Griffin in Shoreditch, London.
The Gallery represents a group of contemporary artists who are not wholly dependent on traditional institutions and structures within the art world for success. Typically a thread of public art runs through the work of represented artists and the Gallery combines working with artists from the contemporary disciplines of street art and graffiti with artists from more tangential public art backgrounds.
Howard Griffin Gallery specialises in large scale debut exhibitions. However, the exhibiting artists are already renowned for one reason or another, be it for executing large scale murals around the world, sitting drawing on a busy High Street or painting the Berlin Wall illegally for years.
Howard Griffin Gallery is based in Shoreditch, London and the 220 square metre two level gallery space plays home to an extensive exhibition schedule. The Gallery, on occasion, launches off site exhibits with activity planned in New York and Los Angeles over the course of 2014.
Exhibitions
Past exhibitions
The gallery's first show was with renowned UK artist John Dolan. It occurred from September 19 to November 19, 2013. The exhibition entitled George the Dog John the Artist was John Dolan's first exhibition following a period of three years during which John Dolan sat on the pavement drawing on the opposite side the street to the gallery's location.
The gallery's second show was with Phlegm, one of the most worlds famous street artists and renowned for painting large murals internationally. The exhibition, entitled The Bestiary, took place from 1 February to 25 March. The show comprised a large scale installation in clay and plaster which took Phlegm six weeks to construct in situ.
Thierry Noir's first significant solo exhibition took place at the Howard Griffin Gallery from 4 April 2014 to 5 May 2014. This show was a retrospective of Noir's thirty year artistic career.
Mexican artist Pablo Delgado's first significant solo show took place at the gallery from 16 May to 8 June 2014 elgado is known for abstracting existing images and rearranging them into new surreal scenes and compositions. Entitled 'Even Less', the exhibition reflects Delgado's obsessive focus in minimising and reducing his work to its smallest expression.
Bob Mazzer's debut photographic exhibition took place at the Howard Griffin Gallery from 12 June 2014 to July 2014. This was the first time that Bob Mazzer's iconic body of work was ever exhibited in a gallery.
While working as a projectionist in a [...] cinema in Central London during the 1980s, Bob Mazzer began photographing on the tube during his daily commute, creating irresistibly joyous pictures alive with humour and humanity. This photographic social history then remained unseen and unexhibited until recently begin discovered.
Current exhibitions
John Dolan, whose exhibition entitled 'George the Dog, John the Artist' was Howard Griffin Gallery's first ever exhibition, is having his second solo show at the gallery during July–September 2014.
This show is based on his book which was published by Random House in July 2014,
Future exhibitions
Giacomo Bufarini, better known as RUN, is an Italian-born artist that will be staging a solo exhibition at the gallery in November 2014. Based in London since 2007, he now balances his street art with his studio practice, showing a more detailed, complex and subtle side to his work.