Artwork copyright Cable Griffith. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2023.

Plein@ir 1.3 (Halle Ravine), 2016

Cable Griffith
(American, born 1975)

Location: Western State Hospital, Lakewood

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Cable Griffith's Plein@ir 1.3 (Halle Ravine) is a “visual ecosystem” that explores micro and macro environments. Griffith notes, “My work comes from a deep appreciation of nature and a desire to communicate our shared and complex relationship to it.” He translates the landscape through a system of mark-making. His paintings are about the relationship of parts to a whole. Smaller, simplified images combine to create a place that exists somewhere between virtual, real, and imagined.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Department of Social and Health Services.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Cable Griffith is a Seattle-based painter, curator, and educator. His paintings draw parallels between landscape paintings and video games.

Griffith received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Boston University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. As a curator, he served as Kirkland Arts Center’s Exhibitions Director from 2007 to 2010. He served as Exhibitions Curator at Cornish College of the Arts from 2010 to 2014. He is an educator at Cornish College of the Arts.