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| Artist Biography |
George Grie was born in 1962 in USSR where he was raised and educated. He graduated from State University in 1985 with a BA (Honors) Degree in Fine Art Education. From the onset of his professional career, the traditional routes of domestic art adopted by many of his peers was not an option. He chose instead to follow the more difficult and demanding path of surrealistic painting wherein clear, concise yardsticks of competence, draughtsmanship and painterly skills can be measured and judged warts and all. The result of his endeavors during his relatively short career has brought a considerable measure of success with his last several shows in London. Stockholm and Helsinki. Grie's paintings are concerned with the portrayal of strong and powerful images relying on visual impact. They are about capturing visual paradoxes, sometimes they depict calm and contemplative moments, solitude, and sometimes melancholy. There is a stillness in his themes which conveys a sense of inner-reflection. Grie's use of distinction technique gives a stark contrast between the light source and the often dark tonality found in his paintings. At the age of thirty-five, George Grie had decided to transform his artistic carrier dramatically. He moved to Toronto, Canada where he became a professional Multimedia Graphic Designer. His prime interest is in contemporary 3D modeling software and their applications. Applying his previous art experience and classical education in a new digital world brings him a compete freedom of expression. The latest digital artworks are an extraordinary visual record of his conceptual thoughts, fantasies and dreams. Often journeying into the subconscious, Grie's work shows a magical and playful, dream-like world laced with mastery details. It is not always a comfortable world. There is a great deal of tension and of alienation in the strange events taking place in the landscape of his imagination. Olga Grie |
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I am writing to answer your possible questions about sources of my art inspiration. Picture concepts could come from anywhere: unusual window views, fantastic movie scenes, or routine commercial posters. The ideas are in the air, they are all over the place. Usually they come as a vague vision of something interestingly abnormal, something you define as extraordinary and atypical. Generally, the first impression transforms dramatically at the end of the creative process. In the majority of my works I am trying to combine visual realities with subconscious emotions and philosophical thoughts. My pictures are similar to mental puzzles where you can travel from one point to another by analyzing a picture’s symbolic objects. Sometimes a picture’s subject matter is unclear when the path is hidden under layers of mutually excepted items. Sometimes a picture could look almost abstract and meaningless but there is always something for you to discover. I never force my vision or push my philosophical opinion on the viewer. I only hint them by image titles. It is entirely your job to build the picture concept based on your personal experience, understanding and preferences. Thank you for your interest, George Grie |