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Timothy Griffith, BFA
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Creating art for 58+yrs... Over the last decade juried into over 120 exhibits- earned 13* art awards. School of the Art Institute in '80s, graduated from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 2020 . [*latest = 10/10/2025]
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"Never give up, never give up, never give up, in all things–– great and small, never give up." -Winston Churchill
February 17, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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My red valentine from this weekend!
February 15, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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When I was in the third grade, I had a friend named Lois Levinson, and she was my pal. One day I began to notice this buzz around school: Somebody was a Jew. I didn't understand what was going on. Then I heard words like kike and Yid, things like that. Suddenly... out of the blue, in class, Lois stood up and said, "My name is Lois Levinson, and I'm a Jew... and I'm proud of it," she said. Very bold, very brave but very confusing to me. So I ran home, and at the dinner table I said, "Hey, what am I?" My dad said, "What do you mean?" I said, "Today Lois Levinson got up and said she was a Jew. What am I?" My dad said, "You're a Jew." I said, "What?" I thought my life was over... and I was devastated... I ran to my room and was in there awhile before he came in and said, "Look, I told you that to make a point." It made a huge impact on me. From then on I was going to defend anybody in that position.
February 6, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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RIP Catherine
Some of my favorite creatives... Tim Burton, Catherine O'Hara, Danny Elfman. RIP Catherine
January 31, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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January 29, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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ATB250 Exhibit!
January 28, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Coming next August!
January 27, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Why it's called a web!
January 27, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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"The Green Fairy" Oil, 2024, 24"x30"... check image alt text for philosophical lamentations...
If you posses the ability to compose a working & concise AI prompt, then you have the ability to stretch a canvas, prime it, create a grisaille layer, and complete your master painting. But, if you prefer an instant result, from the copper brain of a grok, rather than the result of your composition being drug through deep artistic fears, the struggles you have with value and chroma, the coffee or bar shots with friends/collegues after unearthing psychological landmines revealed by your paint process- then, by all means, behave like a little boy playing in the backyard dirt, verbalizing their purile wishes... and, along with your cotton-candy-edged finished image, include your artists' artwork statement of "I was impatient so I asked asked a computer." When I look at AI generated art, I see that the human pain and struggles have been removed, like the giblets of a holiday turkey.
January 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Ray Bann was a better neighbor!
January 10, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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"Man in the Box" 24"x24", oil/canvas, 2025... (philsophical observation in the photo alt text)
I never really looked for happiness, feeling it to be a wasted effort— for so many had tried and failed... that it was not something that could be found in that manner. In those times when I realized happiness was present, I didn't recognize what action of mine had brought it near. But, later in life, when I had lost the hunger of the never-ending search for happiness, and I turned instead to doing what I love every single day, with no expectations, and no weather eye to a non-existent happiness horizon— happiness came and sat next to me. As I continued doing what I loved, I recognized that satisfaction flowed within me— and that, still, happiness sat nearby... staring at that elixir within me. Until that time, I had never realized that happiness is something to which you feed bits of satisfaction on a daily basis! It was always a simple recipe, and quite easy to prepare every day. - Timothy Griffith, 1-8-2026
January 8, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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"Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM" Oil/canvas, 2026 24" x 30" [Artist statement in the photo alt text]
This painting started with a fantastical mental vision I had while looking at the front porch of Georgia O'Keeffe's Abiquiu NM home (September 27th, 2024)- thinking of her 98yo+/- spirit/ghost still looking out the window while I looked in, the distant landscape reflecting in the sectioned window panes. The vision echoed in my thoughts until I decided it might make a challenging painting to create. As with all my paintings, I began mentally rearranging the basic elements (the aparation, porch, window, and reflected landscape) long before I ever sketched out a composition (in this case, the mental composing lasted about 14 months before starting the canvas). It was during these thought compositions that I brought her beloved Cerro Pedernal mesa into the reflection, and then decided that the reflection would actually be one of her paintings of that mesa => which lead to the thought of pairing/layering her style of precisionsim to my divergent version of precisionism. The porch used in the artwork was not her 'home' porch, but rather the porch from reference historical photos, probably the porch of a building in the 'ranch' area of the Abiquiu property. The last part of my mental composing was to edit down the number of elements (keeping the compositional goal ,yet easing the viewing burden). During that refinement I also realized the conceptual similarity of this work to that of M.C. Escher's "Three Worlds" etching. Georgia's Precisionism focuses on the form/shape (outer edge) and segmentations, whereas my Precisionism is emergent from the chaotic inner elements, so that the sum of elemental probabilities coalesce into a larger cohesive and easy to discern shapes/forms (inner constituent parts). This was, from beginning to completion, a fun and meaningful creation of art and compositional philosophy, whose learned benfits extended my creative envelope.
January 6, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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January 2, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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Preview From the Easel 2026 [image] of a soon to be completed painting & My Annual year-end + decade Artwork Summary 2015 to 2025 [link] => drive.google.com/file/d/1Mg90...
Preview From the Easel 2026 [image] of a soon to be completed painting & My Annual year-end + decade Artwork Summary 2015 to 2025 [link] => https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mg90wztLXCT8Jzu_ytWGCbpirQ8juHK9/view?usp=share_link
December 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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On the Walls 2025 [image] from 2025 exhibits & My Annual year-end + decade Artwork Summary 2015 to 2025 [link] => drive.google.com/file/d/1Mg90...
On the Walls 2025 [image] from 2025 exhibits & My Annual year-end + decade Artwork Summary 2015 to 2025 [link] => https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mg90wztLXCT8Jzu_ytWGCbpirQ8juHK9/view?usp=share_link
December 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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The dominant principle of any artist. make art, make art, make art, ad infinitum... From the Easel 2025 [image] from 2025's artworks & My Annual year-end + decade Artwork Summary 2015 to 2025 [link] => drive.google.com/file/d/1Mg90...
The dominant principle of any artist. make art, make art, make art, ad infinitum... From the Easel 2025 [image] from 2025's artworks & My Annual year-end + decade Artwork Summary 2015 to 2025 [link] => https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mg90wztLXCT8Jzu_ytWGCbpirQ8juHK9/view?usp=share_link
December 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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A banner year for the Paint Room Studio! An UPDATE From the Easel 2024 [image] from last year's artworks & My Annual year-end + decade Artwork Summary 2015 to 2025 [link] => drive.google.com/file/d/1Mg90...
A babber year for the Paint Room Studio... two artworks from 2024 each received a Best in Show Ribbon... An UPDATE From the Easel 2024 [image] from last year's artworks & My Annual year-end + decade Artwork Summary 2015 to 2025 [link] => https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mg90wztLXCT8Jzu_ytWGCbpirQ8juHK9/view?usp=share_link
December 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Reception now scheduled for Saturday, January 10th, 1 to 3pm!
December 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Rockford Art Guild @ the Coliseum Museum is ongoing and available to view during the Museum's normal open hours (Wednesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm), despite the weather cancelled opening reception (new reception date and time to be announced).
December 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Tonight's reception has been cancelled... it's dangerously cold outside! Reschedule date & time to be announced.
December 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Rockford Art Guild at The Coliseum Museum... December 12th 2025 to January 16th 2026... opening Reception December 13th 6-8pm
December 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Rockford Art Guild at The Coliseum Museum... December 12th 2025 to January 16th 2026... opening Reception December 13th 6-8pm
December 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Georgia on my mind! Starting a new one that needs to be finished by January 16, 2026
November 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM