The latest show at Kittredge Gallery on the campus of the University of Puget Sound has Seattle painter Cable Griffith's video game-influenced paintings in the main gallery and an installation by sculptor and UPS art faculty member Michael Johnson in the back gallery.
Griffith's paintings are abstract, stylized images based on imagery from early video games. Titled "Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Start," the show references directions in maps, games, cities and the countryside with schematic renderings of colorful streets, rivers and buildings - Pop Art renderings of the pathways taken by players like the Mario Brothers and PacMan. They are inventive and fun to investigate. There is even a video game that can played by using projections onto paintings that can be remote controlled by viewers/players. This piece is a collaborative work with Brent Watanabe.
KITTREDGE GALLERY, "UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT-LEFT-RIGHT-B-A-START" BY CABEL GRIFFITH, THROUGH APRIL 13, MONDAY-FRIDAY 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M., SATURDAY NOON TO 5 P.M., 1500 N. WARNER ST., TACOMA, 253.879.3701