Shane Griffin: Chromatic

December 2019

Shane Griffin is a Dublin born artist, living and working in New York City. His artistic practice spans across a broad range of disciplines, including sculpture, animation, graphic design and illustration. Shane has collaborated with many culturally iconic artists and athletes such as Kanye West, Pharrell Williams and LeBron James.

His solo exhibition at Atelier Maser, ‘Chromatic’, was the first presentation of this body of work in Ireland and it was the debut showcase of a number of new artworks by the artist. The exhibition presented a series of large format digital prints that explored the limits of colour theory and refraction.

In these works, the artist delves into the macro work of ‘diffraction grating’. In this process, light beams are split into various wavelengths by an optical component - which exposes the light’s structure of colour. Shane’s work captures this unique process and creatively depicts it to the viewer through his originally designed prints.