Rick Griffith Beach Tote — $40.00
· Dimensions: 14" x 4" x 15"
By request of artist Rick Griffith and his practice's ethos of reuse and ethical design, Griffith's monumental diptych collage Resting.,., has been repurposed into small vinyl bags after being shown at Black Cube's June 2025 anniversary exhibition flood. Doing so extends the artwork's life while simultaneously refusing the disposability of contemporary consumer culture.
Please note that product images are for reference. Each bag will feature various sections of Resting.,., meaning that each is one-of-a-kind.
Resting.,., by Rick Griffith was a monumental diptych collage commissioned for Black Cube's one-day exhibition flood (seen in images 3-4). Created from pages of a 1967 Ebony magazine issue featuring Martin Luther King Jr. on vacation, this artwork offered a rare glimpse of Black rest as radical practice. In a culture that often privileges images of Black labor, protest, or struggle, Griffith foregrounded leisure as a form of resistance—one that challenged the relentless demands of productivity and the systemic denial of rest. Displayed poolside, these banners not only engaged with the visual politics of repose but also echoed the fraught history of pools as sites of racial exclusion.
Installation Images: Rick Griffith, Resting.,.,, 2025, vinyl banners. Commissioned for flood at TAXI Campus in Denver, Colorado. Courtesy of the artist and Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum. Photo by Wes Magyar.
· Dimensions: 14" x 4" x 15"
By request of artist Rick Griffith and his practice's ethos of reuse and ethical design, Griffith's monumental diptych collage Resting.,., has been repurposed into small vinyl bags after being shown at Black Cube's June 2025 anniversary exhibition flood. Doing so extends the artwork's life while simultaneously refusing the disposability of contemporary consumer culture.
Please note that product images are for reference. Each bag will feature various sections of Resting.,., meaning that each is one-of-a-kind.