Art and Ethics (HYBRID)

Morality in Art – Where do we draw the line?

Painter Barbara Griffiths takes her recent exhibition, ‘Trash’ as a jumping-off point to talk about the disconcerting gap in perception between artist and viewer if the artist is only concerned with aesthetics. Can art be meaningful nowadays without social relevance? What is the impact on contemporary art of our increased awareness of social and racial injustice?

Barbara Griffiths is an English artist who studied at Maidstone College of Art and The Slade School, London. She exhibited at The Piccadilly Gallery and The Lasson Gallery in London and wrote and illustrated two books for young adults which were published internationally. In 1995 she moved to Connecticut where she made work about human nature, identity, and religion. She exhibited at The Silvermine Guild, New Canaan Library, Katonah Museum, Long Island Museum, The Greenwich Arts Center, and The University of Connecticut. To accompany an exhibition of Bible illustrations at The Fairfield Arts Center, Griffiths staged public debates with a Priest and a Rabbi which questioned the existence of God. Her satirical Bible Stories for Children were serialized in Skeptic Magazine, U.K.

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