Issue 29, Winter '12

7 Pieces

by Tm Gratkowski Issue 5 09.07.2006
Tm Gratkowski

Tm Gratkowski

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After attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hoschule fur Agawandte Kunst in Vienna, Tm went onto receive a BS and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin and an MA from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. As a visual artist Tm has always sought out the unexplained, the curious, the strange, and the undefined within popular culture. He discovers relationships hidden and unrealized upon first glance and develops ideas to confront issues hidden within the material we are exposed to everyday. It is this small connection that Tm sees and seeks out, creating works of art which challenge the unchallenged perceptions of ideas and values all around us. Among other achievements, Tm’s Art and interview will be featured in the Spring/Summer issue of Be Which Magazine. Recently, he has sold a collage entitled “Chiasma”, through Christies, Los Angeles, and in April of 2005, he was named of one “L.A.’s top 25 Emerging Artists” with a show at Gallery Yormagil. Tm also created a series of collages for Moby’s “Spiders” video. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.