About
Guy Grabowsky (b. 1995, Australia) is an artist working in photography, currently based between New York City, USA, and Melbourne, Australia. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne (2017), a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from VCA (2018), and a Master of Fine Art in Photography from Parsons School of Design | The New School, New York City (2024).
Grabowsky’s practice engages a hybrid and expanded field of photography. Emerging through a rigorous process, his works range from the pictorial to the seemingly abstract. Constructed both with and without the camera, they move through mark-making and drawing while integrating analogue and digital technologies, including the colour and black-and-white darkroom, Xerox, and flatbed scanner, with unorthodox methodologies. His works are allusive and layered, at times combining materials including tape and acrylic with expressionist gestures and minimalist, repetitive motifs. Cycles of transformation shift the photographic image away from the moment of encounter with eye-camera-lens-subject. Through these interventions, the image is ruptured, its analogue and digital tools made visible. In doing so, the works reflect upon the medium’s ontology.
Grabowsky’s practice engages a hybrid and expanded field of photography. Emerging through a rigorous process, his works range from the pictorial to the seemingly abstract. Constructed both with and without the camera, they move through mark-making and drawing while integrating analogue and digital technologies, including the colour and black-and-white darkroom, Xerox, and flatbed scanner, with unorthodox methodologies. His works are allusive and layered, at times combining materials including tape and acrylic with expressionist gestures and minimalist, repetitive motifs. Cycles of transformation shift the photographic image away from the moment of encounter with eye-camera-lens-subject. Through these interventions, the image is ruptured, its analogue and digital tools made visible. In doing so, the works reflect upon the medium’s ontology.