Jonathan Griffin

5 days ago | apollo-magazine.com | Jonathan Griffin

From the June 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The black-and-white photograph shows a wood-panelled room with a pitched roof of dark redwood beams. A low table is pushed cosily up against a large brick hearth, and around it several children sit in easy chairs, one reading, others busily engaged in craft activities. At a piano, a girl strokes a cat, while a dog basks in the sunlight that slants across a large rug.

1 month ago | frieze.com | Jonathan Griffin

The wind gusted so hard, as my family drew up to Jose Dávila’s sculpture The act of being together (2025), that it blew my young son clean over. The frequently windswept site north of Palm Springs is ideal for the work; as the nearby wind turbines churn, Dávila’s sculpture – 12 giant chunks of white marble, balanced in two-block stacks – is striking in its stillness.

1 month ago | worldofinteriors.com | Jonathan Griffin |Rinne Allen

There are still plenty of people in Buena Vista, Georgia, who remember Saint Eom, as Eddie Owens Martin (EOM) called himself following a feverish epiphany in 1935. This led to his rebirth as the emissary of a future race of spiritually advanced, possibly extraterrestrial beings. Until his suicide in 1986 at the age of 77, he lived alone on a mysterious and outlandish property called Pasaquan, hidden by thick bamboo and pine trees a few miles outside town. He was not exactly a recluse, though.

2 months ago | untappedjournal.com | Mark Byrnes |Jonathan Griffin |Peter Shire |Edwin Heathcote

Echo Park, Los Angeles, where the artist and designer Peter Shire was born, in 1947, is a quiet enclave which, around the time of his childhood, was colloquially known as “Red Hill” for its reputation as a haven for left-wingers.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jonathan Griffin

Image "I can make art anywhere," Knuth says. "I'm not worried about that." Jacobson, 49, worked primarily from home, and lost items from her library of material samples, as well as some vintage furnishings. Knuth considers himself lucky, comparatively. Last July, he signed the lease on a new studio, which was spared from the fire. He had moved nearly all his paintings, sculptures, books and tools out of his garage, where he'd previously worked.