Ron Griffin
January 3 – February 14, 2026
as-is.la is pleased to present “Ron Griffin,” an exhibition of new, recent and vintage paintings by this veteran Los Angeles artist. Presented in conjunction with “Renée Petropoulos,” the shows will run from January 3 through February 14. Please join us for an artists’ reception on Saturday, January 3, from 2-5 pm.
Like other Los Angeles artists before him, Ron Griffin grew disaffected with the city he had called home for decades and sought new and less precarious accommodations in the bright light and crisp dry air of New Mexico.
And while things didn’t go exactly as planned in the four years he was there—“a nightmare,” the artist recalls—Griffin managed to produce a body of compelling new artworks even under difficult circumstances. This exhibition focuses on the work of that period and its inevitable relationship to the personal events it brackets; a few happy, many more mundane, at least one heartbreakingly sad.
Happily, Griffin is back in Los Angeles. And now, as before, he presents artworks that are notable for their coolly indifferent affect. The emotions are there however. And they all the more powerful—and more poetic in their expression—for being so thoroughly repressed.