LINDA GRIGGS

 
FIRST DAY OF VACATION
2025-PRESENT

 
2013-2015

WHAT TO DO WITH THE BODY 

2010-2013

NARRATIVE STILL LIFE

1995-2010

FAMILY OUTING

1992-1994
 

PHOTOS AND THE LIES THEY TELL

1982-1992

STUDIO

107 Suffolk St., NYC

RESUME, STATEMENT, BIO, CURATORIAL, 
WORK RESUME, OTHER PROJECTS

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Represented by The Front Room Gallery 
Gallery Hours: Friday–Sunday, 12–5 PM, and by appointment
205 Warren Street
Hudson, NY 12401 
718-782-2556





"Car Sex"  
2013
homemade, black walnut ink on paper
16 x 22 1/4"

 Shown at Christopher Stout Gallery, NYC 
November 2015








      

 

INSTALLATION SHOTS
Christopher Stout Gallery, NYC 2012


 

LOL IT HURT SO MUCH
Framed: 3 images, 60 x 42" Blond, Brunette arms back, Erin Marx 59 1/2 x 42

Framed: 2 text panels, 30 x 24"Text panels 5 1/4 x 17, 6 1/2 x 13, 6x17, 3 3/4 x 17, 6 3/4 x 12, 7 x 17 


Text reads:

Diamond_Princesz1 posts posted 13th May '09

...when he was putting it in it was hurting so badd that i thought i was gonna die or something. lol

KayndeKayne869 posts posted 20th Mar '08

...It was painful and dreadful

Mommuh Crah742 posts posted 20th Mar '08

...it hurt soo bad..

Invisataint20304 posts posted 20th Mar '08

...it hurt soo bad too and he wasnt even big, he was small!

Alysa10187 posts posted 20th Mar '08

....it was embarrassing and it hurt like hell..

Spell Checker Girl AB CCL3593 posts posted 20th Mar '08

...it hurt, I was on top, he barely got in before I had to get off him because it hurt like hell (at which point, he said, "That's okay, I was done anyway."



"Hole Truth"
2014
homemade black walnut ink on paper
85 1/2 x 42" image
7 1/2 x 19 1/2, 5 1/4 x 15 1/2, 3 x13 3/4, 3 3/4 x 13, 5 1/4 x 9  Text panels
Framed 99 x 51"

text reads:
I finally got a girl in my dorm room, 
got her naked, in bed, 
ready and willing, 
and I couldn't find the hole. 

I thought it would be straight down. 
She didn't help either. 
We humped all night.

No second date.


 
 
      





      
                

Steamy window - 16 x 22 ½,   Dust 16 x 22 ½,  Cop - 11 /14 x 11 ¾", Brit car -12 x 9 ½", Hands 22 1/2 x 15 ½

“Re": text - 13 x 22 1/2"
“Invisataint" text - 10 1/2 x 17 1/2"
“deleted" text - 12 x 17 ½"

Re: loosing virginity stories. 
Inspiration: Billy Joel's song "Only the Good Die Young" 
Motivation: reluctantly going off to Bible college 
Cohort: Andy Meador 
Setting: a deserted lovers' lane-type spot 
Pre-coital wining and dining: a Coke from McDonald's drive-thru 
Post-coital impression: much ado about nothing

Invisataint 20304 posts  posted 20th Mar '08 
.... it made me think about my virginity story it was awkward! 
It was in the back of a ford explorer on a main street on a 
saturday night. Cars and cops kept driving by so we'd be 
having sex and out of nowhere hed plop on top of me so the 
cars couldnt see him...my head kept hitting the back of the 
passenger seat... 
Colleen L. 9190 posts  posted 20th Mar '08 
The first time for me was in he back of a Pontiac 2000 LE. 
It wasnt too horrible, but definately wasnt comfortable.

[–][deleted] 5 points 1 year ago 
I lost my virginity to a friend while we were 
drunk at a party. We decided to go fuck in 
his car. After the act I told him I needed to 
put my clothes on and pee. He told me he 
didn't want me to leave yet and handed me 
a Gatorade bottle to pee in. I was drunk and 
thought it was a good idea. I pissed all over 
the floor of the backseat of his car.


                                 



                                                                        LOL It Hurt so Bad - small, multiple drawings version

       
Installation shots in studio and at art fair
 


                           
  
        






DOLE HOLE - Studies

            
DOLL HOLE 1      DOLL HOLE 2
studies

EXHIBITIONIST


My virginity had become a burden and I just wanted 

to get rid of it. I was on vacation with friends at a 

summer house.  A European backpacker came by.  

Perfect!  

Complete anonymity. No friends of friends telling his 

friends, telling my friends...  No gossip.  

 

We were on my living room murphy bed when my 

friends came back early and walked right in on us.  

They saw everything. He grabbed his clothes and 

shoes and ran out. I was completely embarrassed 

and humiliated. That feeling is the one I remember. 



DRAWING BLOOD


[–]WillCasey 831 points 2 months ago 

After graduating high school, all my friends decided to have a beach 

week. One night after some drinks, this girl very forwardly asks if I 

want to have sex. Little virgin me was scared as hell, but not about 

to pass this up. We go into a dark room, start kissing, and get down 

to business quickly. I have no idea what's going on so I'm on bottom. 

It's about 95 degrees in the room and she's going at it pretty hard on 

top so my sweaty head starts hitting the backboard. So I'm already 

not having the best time, but to top it off this girl is getting way into 

it and starts scratching my chest violently. And this was no sexy 

scratch, she was literally drawing blood. I guess my penis felt I was 

in danger and I could faintly hear it whisper, "I'm getting you out of 

here, buddy," as it slowly went limp inside of this girl. After a minute 

she realized what had happend. I got out of there as fast as possible 

to go nurse my bleeding chest. My friends refuse to let this story die 

and I can't even blame them.


FIRST TIME FIREWORKS

fIRST TIME FIREWORKS PG


FIRST TIME FIREWORKS - R



FIRST TIME FIREWORKS - X

Finally, on Fourth of July 

we did it. 

.

It really hurt.

Tears were sliding

down the side of my face.

He didn't notice. 

.

Then outside the 

window a bottle 

rocket went off 

and we laughed. 

 
Elbows
60 x 42