Griffin Allman (b. 1997) is an artist and art educator currently working in Knoxville, TN. Allman received his BFA in Studio Art and his BA in Art Education from Kent State University in Kent, OH, in 2021, before receiving his MFA with a concentration in Painting & Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2024. Allman has exhibited work nationwide, including but not limited to First Street Gallery in New York City, Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI, and the Candoro Marble Building in Knoxville, TN.

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My artistic practice centers on the creation of drawings, paintings, and collage-based assemblages that explore the tension between structure and chaos, control and surrender. Rooted in themes of habit, ritual, and hyperfixation, my work serves as both an iterative and psychological archive - one that seeks to understand how anxiety, fear, obsession, and the compulsive urge to categorize shape our perception of the world and of ourselves. Through repetition, gesture and the integration of text, I build visual systems that become exercises in focus and containment, where mark-making becomes a ritualized act of reclaiming presence.