Eric Johnson and Bobby Griffiths

This work is from the Eleven Twenty Projects and Starlight Studio and Art Gallery’s “Co-Artifact Fundraiser for Starlight Studio” held on April 19th, 2018, http://eleventwentyprojects.com/coartifact/. The following description of the interesting collaboration was gleaned from the event’s website:

Co-Artifact brings 15 artists from the community and 15 Starlight artists together to create collaborative artworks. For this project, each artist is asked to create a piece of artwork in the medium and size of his or her choice. A Starlight artist and a community artist are then paired up, switch artworks, and complete the other’s work. The 30 resulting artworks were made available for an auction open to the community. For this installment of Co-Artifact, Kyle Butler of Starlight Studio and John Fatta of Eleven Twenty Projects have brought in more artists from Buffalo’s community than ever before, both new and returning participants.

This year’s participating community artists included: Jozef Bajus, Kyle Butler, Caitlin Cass, Valeria Cray-Dihaan, Cynnie Gaasch, Pam Glick, Pat Greene, Bobby Griffiths, Ani Hoover, Billy Huggins, Kevin Kline, Joan Linder, Bethany Moody, Cassandra Ott, and Rebecca Wing. Participating Starlight artists are: Paul Chandler, Saeed Dubaishi, Kelly Evans, Ricky Hogan, Eric Johnson, Sonya Lewis, Chace Lobley, John Montedoro, Larell Potter, John Price, Steve Robinson, Kimber Rodgers, Mary Schneider, Mathew Sharp, and Jocelyn Triggle.

The idea for Co-Artifact stemmed from the story of illustrator Mica Angela Hendricks, whose daughter found her sketchbook and drew on top of her unfinished drawings. When the illustrator discovered what had been done, she decided to use her daughter’s lines to create finished art pieces. The goal of the event is to have Starlight artists and artists from the community finish one another’s work, and where possible, build collegial relationships where the artist pairs would discuss techniques and influence each other to go outside their creative comfort zones.

Bobby Griffiths is an artist known for his work for Gutterpop comics and zines, as well as being a performer of contemporary “noise music.” There is no work by these artists in the collection.