New CDX at SCOPE with Patrajdas Contemporary Booth H10

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Opening January 17th.

Zines

These "real" collage zines were created for my solo show at Blythe Projects in 2011. Each Zine represented one of 12 collages in my WHITE OUT show. These zines- which differ from normal zines- are actual "one of a kind" works of art, not published in short runs on a home printer. Each zine, numbered and signed, is 14 pages, 8-1/2"x11" Each page has an original collage and each one is different. Contact me for more info. $500 each.

paper and concrete...who knew.

LA street happening

Auction- October 25 (6-9)

sign collage

TARFEST 10 Year Retrospective

http://www.tarfest.com/art.html

Why Come Legally To Disrupt (Bill of Rights), 2011, 72"x36", paper on paper

start your own small collection...

http://www.etsy.com/shop/tmgratkowski

lovin' it Los Angeles!

Text Message- Group Show August 18 at Bleicher Gallery, Los Angeles

Patrajdas Contemporary

http://www.patrajdas.com/artists/GratkowskiT/gratkowski.html

on the studio wall...

Available to purchase on Etsy. Buy them individually or get there first and buy the entire series : https://www.etsy.com/your/shops/tmgratkowski

Open Studio

100 completed...

The last in the series of 100. CDX-100, CDX-53, CDX-56. CDX (Classical Disney Porn). 2012 paper on paper, 8-1/2"x11".

$900 ea. (framed).

'Big Ass Paper Bling Thing' is selected for the 20th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition at KCCLA

http://www.kccla.org/english_/3calendar_view_.asp?calID=1946&tabID=6599

juried by: Douglas Fogle, Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Public Programs &Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum; Alma Ruiz, Senior Curator of MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art; and Max Presneill, Museum Curator of Torrance Art Museum.

678 (final shot)

photo taken by Gina Genis 2012

678

678

29days(24hours)= 696h

                -12 (March 3)

                -6 (March 31)

                =678

                +3? (unknown variable)

What would you do with 678 hours?

Is it possible to take a moment of time- in this case the total length of time for the entire duration of a residency (678 hours)- and be so efficient to equal that amount of time, to represent each hour, with a new work of art?

On March 3^rd 2012, at 12:00noon,  the doors open to the public at the Huntington Beach Art Center’s 2012 Artist In Residence Exhibition. I am one of 3 artists who were asked to participate in this years residency program in which artists are asked to work in the gallery space and encouraged to create works of art which engage the public and evolve over time- I took this literally. The residency continues until 6:00pm on March 31, at which time a public reception for the artists and the finished works of art will be held- until 9:00pm. What happens in those 3 additional hours is anyone’s guess.

3.3.2011@12:00 – 3.31.2012@18:00=678. +3?

I have chosen a project that pushes what is possible into an actual documentation of creative sweat equity to produce art representing time as it moves, passes by, and is gone forever. What is left after this time is a work(s) of art which documents time in physical material. The art is a byproduct of creative production equal to time elapsed.

The material- my material of choice -is paper. I will be working with the HBAC and the local community at large to bring paper of every kind to the art center during regular business hours. I will use this material to create random and spontaneous small collage compositions. These collages will be hung on a large wall in the order of each representative hour- a “collage timeline”. Some collages may be simple, others complicated, and some very labor intensive. In the end there will be a documentation of ways to utilize time efficiently and creatively, as well as the random act of creating which not only influences our creative process but also how it is affected by it.

note: the images above are from a series of 3 pieces I did called "One" (2006-2007), "Another One" (2007-2008), and "Last One" (2008-2009). This series is a collage a day, on that day, every day for one year. I took one day off between each year before starting the next year.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art builds our design...

link to artinfo.com

Q&A with Howard Fox- 10.18.2011

Leaving 2011...

Mat Gleason at the Huffington Post lists FLAG STOP as #6 in top 11 shows in LA of 2011

HAPPY CREATIVE HOLIDAYS

coming soon:

In case you missed it...

Palimpsest closed at gallery 825 on November 11,2011. It was then shipped to SCOPE Miami and exhibited with Patrajdas Gallery for Miami Art Week receiving a tremendous amount of attention and interest.

SCOPE Miami

If you are at Miami please go check out my work at PATRAJDAS Contemporary at SCOPE Miami Art Fair
www.patrajdas.com

PATRAJDAS Contemporary now represents me on the East Coast.

Permanent Art Collection

I am very excited that Loyola's Law School (Los Angeles) just purchased this large collage sprawLA for their permanent art Collection. This is especially rewarding for me because I used to work for Frank Gehry who designed this campus in the 1980's. Some other notable artists in this collection are: Kerry James Marshall, Lita Albuquerque, Carlos Almaraz, Frank Gehry, Jaspar Johns, Astrid Preston, Kent Twitchell, John Valdez, James Doolin, Joe Fay, Dan McCleary, Cales Oldenburg, Chris Burden, Peter Hess, Jim Morphesis,  Betye Saar and Ruth Weisberg
to name just a few.

B.A.P.B.T.selected by Charlie Manzo of Gagosian Gallery, New York

Big Ass Paper Bling Thing (aka- "the paper chandelier") was selected by Charlie Manzo of Gagosian Gallery, NYC to participate in Los Angeles Art Associations Open Show-2011.

OPENING RECEPTION: December 10 6:00-9:00p at Gallery 825

trouble...

somewhere in LA?

last week for "palimpsest" at gallery 825- closes Friday!

just like being there...

Closing soon- WHITE OUT at Blythe projects- last week!

A flurry of activity...

The studio is a mess but it's all gearing up towards the solo show at gallery 825 which opens October 15.

LA Weekely review of FLAG STOP by Sahna Nys Dambrot

View Review Link HERE!

Interview by Tracey Harnish

see artist-interview-Tm Gratkowski

Video Interview by Ginger VanHook

Big Ass Paper Bling Thing is on the way...

 Come check out all its glory at my "WHITE OUT" solo show at Blythe Projects - opening September 10, 2011