"Hope Bomb Leaving Claim Receipt" Collage

Tm’s education and early works are rooted in painting, drawing, and architecture his professional practice as an artist is based on using paper as his primary material to create collages, installations, and sculpture. Tm Gratkowski's artwork is a form of visual data gathering. He aligns the act of looking with that of reading by using paper, images, and text to create a critical visual narrative about the culture of information we live in today. His artwork is densely layered to construct a surface rich in patterns, images, text. Going beyond historical definitions, concepts, and contemporary art practices Tm pushes the boundaries beyond traditional collage as he beguiles everyday information by playing with image-as-text and text-as-image. Tm Gratkowski’s work has been featured in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions Nationally and Internationally and his work can be found exhibited in most major art fairs throughout the US and Europe. Since moving his studio practice to LA. full-time in 2008 Tm has been exhibiting continuously and has produced several major gallery shows and museum exhibitions since. He is currently working on two upcoming solo museum exhibitions which will premier over the next couple years (2019-2021) His work has been featured in several printed catalogues, articles, interviews, and online publications including Artillery Magazine, Pulse Magazine, Art Ltd, and Art Voices Magazine among others. His work is in the collection of many important private and corporate collections in the US including Smashbox Studios in Culver City and Loyola Marymount University School of Law in Los Angeles. As a point to evolve and push his work and ideas further Tm is currently preparing work on “One Mile”, the first continuous, uninterrupted, mile long collage. Tm currently lives and works in Los Angeles California and is preparing new work for two forthcoming solo museum exhibitions.