Tristan D. Grey is a fine artist and architect from Germany.
Originally trained as a professional architect at the University for the Applied Sciences Münster in Münster, Germany and at the University for the Arts Berlin in Berlin, Germany, Tristan Dean Grey now works as a self-taught fine artist in the different media of drawing, painting, photography, as well as digitally as seen in his GPS-drawings.
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Artist Statement
Tristan D. Grey
Written by
Tristan D. Grey
Published
03rd January 2021
‘ fascinated by the human form [...] movement and space, their recollection and experience ’
Tristan D. Grey,
Artist
Following my graduation as a Dipl.-Ing. Architect, I returned to my first passion of drawing, which orginally let me onto the path of becoming an architect in the first place. In search for a line both direct and ambigious to represent intention as well as openness for interpretation, I try to stay with my drawings between Realism and Abstraction to allow the observer enough space to use his own imagination to fill in the gaps and interpret the image based on his/her own experience.
Being fascinated by the human form and its shape with a particular interest in portraiture, I turned to painting with a focus on figurative art, though not in a mere reproduction and/or copying of reality, but rather as an expressive and abstract capturing of what it essentially means to be a human being in this day and age. I see my process as one from abstraction to concretion and back to abstraction again, during which the paintings go through several stages of refinement and destruction until the finalised images emerge.
While studying architecture at the University of the Arts in Berlin I transitioned into the field of art, combining my interest for space and design with my natural inclination for drawing and photography, resulting in an exhibition about Locative Art and the Aesthetic Utilisation of Architectural Perception as my diploma thesis, combining CAD drawings with photographs and an augmented reality installation.
Following my graduation as a Dipl.-Ing. Architect I returned to my first passion of drawing which orginally let me onto the path of becoming an architect in the first place. In search for a line both direct and ambigious to represent intention as well as openness for interpretation, I try to stay with my drawings between Realism and Abstraction to allow the observer enough space to use his own imagination to fill in the gaps and interpret the image based on his/her own experience.
Being fascinated by the human form and its shape with a particular interest in portraiture I turned to painting with a focus on figurative art though not in a mere reproduction and/or copying of reality but rather as an expressive and abstracted capturing of what it essentially means to be a human being in this day and age. I see my process as one from abstraction to concretion and back to abstraction again, while the paintings go through several stages of refinement and destruction until the finalised painting emerges.
While studying architecture at the University of the Arts in Berlin I transitioned into the field of art, combining my interest for space and design with my natural inclination for drawing and photography, resulting in an exhibition about Locative Art and the Aesthetic Utilisation of Architectural Perception as my diploma thesis, combining CAD drawings with photographs and an augmented reality installation.
Following my graduation as a Dipl.-Ing. Architect I returned to my first passion of drawing which orginally let me onto the path of becoming an architect in the first place. In search for a line both direct and ambigious to represent intention as well as openness for interpretation, I try to stay with my drawings between Realism and Abstraction to allow the observer enough space to use his own imagination to fill in the gaps and interpret the image based on his/her own experience.
Being fascinated by the human form and its shape with a particular interest in portraiture I turned to painting with a focus on figurative art though not in a mere reproduction and/or copying of reality but rather as an expressive and abstracted capturing of what it essentially means to be a human being in this day and age. I see my process as one from abstraction to concretion and back to abstraction again, while the paintings go through several stages of refinement and destruction until the finalised painting emerges.
While studying architecture at the University of the Arts in Berlin, I transitioned into the field of art, combining my interest in space and design with my natural inclination for drawing and photography, resulting in an exhibition about Locative Art and the Aesthetic Utilisation of Architectural Perception as my diploma thesis, combining CAD drawings with photographs and an augmented reality installation.
In a similar way to my paintings, I treat my photographs not as means of pure representation but rather see them as a surface to be worked on and transformed into a meditation on a subject a priori instead of the reproduction of its superficial imagery. Central and recurring elements in all my artworks are movement and space, their recollection and experience, not static but somewhat in motion, not completely palpable, and not written out in detail, but rather something approximate.
