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About
Grason Ratowsky is an American painter living and working between New York City and Mallorca, Spain. He works in the lineage of American Expressionism and postwar European painting. His practice centers on process-driven painting, emphasizing movement, pressure, accumulation, and layered depth, allowing images to emerge through physical engagement rather than predetermined form. While rooted in expressionist logic, his work sustains slippage between abstraction, figuration, and surreal recognition. Working at large scale, his paintings maintain tension between bodily gesture and emergent imagery, foregrounding process as both structure and content.
Ratowsky approaches the canvas as an active field in which image and material develop simultaneously. Through layered application and repeated reworking, forms surface, dissolve, and reassert themselves within the density of paint. Nothing is fixed. Each area remains subject to pressure and revision as the composition moves toward provisional coherence.
Figuration functions as a shifting presence rather than a stable subject. Images hover at the threshold of legibility, opening a speculative space where perception remains unsettled. Meaning builds through sustained looking. As the viewer stays with the work, relationships sharpen, recede, and reorganize, giving the paintings a sense of continual movement and internal life.
Ratowsky has exhibited internationally in the United States, Europe, and Asia. His work is held in private and institutional collections globally.
I never chose to be an artist, it’s simply who I’ve always been. I received my passion for creativity naturally. I was so enveloped in the arts from growing up around the world with artist parents, that I always believed art was life and vice versa. For me there was never a differentiation between the two.
Process has always been an indispensable part of my life and work. I believe true creativity is revealed through discovery and surprise, through experience. The necessity of listening, realizing and unearthing as you go delivers one to find creative opportunity and solutions that would otherwise not be possible. Process offers a framework for navigation and a veritable tranquility in the chaos of creation.
From a wide lens view, this process has taken me through endless facets and layers within the world of art and design. With over 20 years professionally engaging in these industries, I’ve had the unique pleasure of wearing many hats, experiencing many achievements and learning from many failures. This process has allowed me to collaborate with some of the greatest visionaries of our time and open a window to the public into my art & life.
I continue to make art consistently via various avenues from my main studio located in a 17th century sheep feeding den – in the heart of Mallorca, Spain.
If you are interested in my work or have a project that you’d like to collaborate on, please Contact Me to see if it’s a good fit.
