Garde Rail Gallery - Clint Griffin

Clint Griffin was raised on a farm outside Toronto. Along with his brother Scott Griffin, the boys created fantasy worlds in which to lose themselves. Clint binds dozens of photographs together with screws, and then paints on the top surface. Curiosity and intrigue fill the layers and make the viewer want to dismantle the piece to see what lies in the other photographs.

Clint also paints on wood, books, and canvas, creating sparse scenes that evoke a sense of waiting, a calm still amid a whirlwind, urbane existence. Clint's "maps" are beautiful - heavily painted scraps of wood are scraped until map-like forms are revealed. His new collage pieces are at once mysterious and hilarious.