
Sam Griffin
Engaging biblical text through paint
Current Work
My work engages biblical text as something lived rather than illustrated.
Through oil and abstraction, I process scripture, memory, and experience ā
allowing meaning to emerge slowly, under pressure and time.I am interested in the space where law and spirit meet,
where prophecy is felt rather than explained.AFTERMATH
A body of worked developed in response to war and its lasting imprint.
Exhibited at: The Wolfson Museum of Jewish Art, Jerusalem - The Bernard Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College, NYC - The Altneu Synagogue, NYC - The Eisenberg Gallery, Omaha - Hillel UCLA, Los Angeles. Upcoming: The Skirball Museum, Cincinnati, opening March 5th.
View: Aftermath

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About The Artist
I paint the Bible from within Jewish memory, land, and lived experience.
My work is not illustrative. Iām not interested in depicting scenes as they might have appeared,
but in painting what it feels like to stand inside them ā the pressure, the struggle, the encounter.
Biblical painting has, for centuries, been shaped largely by Christian imagination.
My work returns these stories to a Jewish interior world: one rooted in language, land, continuity, and responsibility.
I process scripture through oil paint in the same way one wrestles with a text ā
slowly, physically, without resolution guaranteed. The paintings arrive not as explanations,
but as attempts to carry meaning forward.
I live and work in Israel. I am an IDF veteran, a husband, and a father.
These facts are not separate from the work; they inform how I understand history, covenant, and presence.
My paintings are an ongoing conversation between ancient text and lived Jewish life ā unfinished, embodied, and rooted in place.

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Press

The Jerusalem Post
Sam Griffin - The Art Of War
Gaza as a Blurred, Empty World in the Paintings of an Israeli Reservist
Haaretz
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