Kolaz: 2014

I saw Tm Gratkowski’s powerful, moving, and very provocative show NOTHING SHOCKING yesterday. I was engrossed by the formal strength and composure of his disconcertingly anxious works. In a way I felt the show was, well, the word 'haunted' comes to mind.
Tm manages to make swarms of text -- the kind that surrounds our every waking moment like static -- and orchestrate it into a highly disciplined kind of chaos: meticulously structured, but chaotic and unfathomable nonetheless. He makes what is familiar alien, and vice-versa. There's an exquisite tension between connection and disconnection that's edgy, unsettling, and faintly melancholic, at least to my reading of the work.

That's quite a feat. And the trilogy of Good, Bad, and Ugly is a real tour de force.
Bravo!
Howard Fox- Emeritus Curator of Contemporary Art, LACMA.


My art is better than yours (pending title)_2014_10-3/4"x8-1/4"_paper on magazine- covering all art images and all artists names are replaced with my name throughout magazine.

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