June 2003 Edition
Front Cover
Cancer Survivor
Leap of Faith
Starving A Beast
Amy Griffin, Gallery Owner
Campaign A Success
Celebration on Campus
Campus News
Alumni News
Student News
Back Cover
When
Amy Griffin ’99 graduated from Schreiner, she was
sure her English degree would lead to become a literary critic.Instead, her love art and photography led her to open two art galleries. “I really felt the need to express myself more visually,” she explained. “So I started studying photography darkroom techniques under Richard, my husband, a professional photographer.”
The couple opened the F8 Fine Art Gallery in Austin in May 2001 and a second gallery in downtown Kerrville two months later. The Kerrville gallery is located in historic Masonic building, one of only four buildings Kerr County on the National Historic Register. Initially, F8— which is a camera aperture—was to be a photographic gallery only, however, the couple eventually expanded the gallery’s exhibitions to paintings.
Griffin said that, for her, the magic of photography is in capturing a moment, a mood. “When people view my work, I want them to experience what that object or landscape shared with me when I took the photograph. I believe in the beauty of simple things, which is a beauty often overlooked. My photographs are my way of saying, ‘open your eyes to everything.’ ”
Griffin’s
latest show, “Texas Flood,” chronicles the
damage from the 2002 flood that devastated parts of Kerrville. “By
choosing to focus on the small still-lifes rather than the raging river,
I hope to help the viewer feel the losses of the families who suffered damages
that summer,” she said. For more information on the Griffins’ galleries, visit www.f8fineart.com.