NADA New York 2025

Raphael Griswold (b. 1984 in Boston, MA) considers how specific “sites” (defined broadly as places) express military/industrial power through their forms and histories. Griswold works on and with paper to depict images dredged up through a combination of historical research, oral history, and on-site exploration. For NADA New York Griswold will present works from his Assignment series, a body of work that began in 2008. Each drawing begins as a simple sketch of wherever he is standing, made with whatever drawing tool he has at hand. Later he complete the drawings by coloring them in from memory, working in 30 minute intervals until finished. Of the series Griswold states “I relate to drawing as a method of recording; these drawings are a record of my movements. Drawing also elongates moments and enables noticing; these drawings fix the details of a memory (or prove the fallibility of memory.)” Griswold will open his first solo exhibition with the gallery on May 27, 2025.