David Griggs – New York, London, Paris, Rome, Manila City Jail

Overview

David Griggs is a contemporary artist from Sydney who documents the seamy underbelly of the third world, Australian style. Which means his works are bold, garish and larger than life. For his latest exhibition, opening this Thursday at MOP Gallery, he just got back from spending four months in a Manilla Jail working with the inmates on typically massive canvases representing their gang emblems.
The work promises to be politically charged, very beautiful and, well, big ... you get it. If that's still not enough of a Griggs fix, in the next room there's a group show he also curated. The man's unstoppable.