Amsterdam — 2024
De veelzijdigheid van vilt, Time
& Memory
Paintings, sculpture, and ceramic works by Tiny de Graaf — exploring material accumulation and the archaeology of the painted surface.
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Tiny de Graaf
Visual Artist — Amsterdam
My work lives in the tension between the tangible and the intangible — where pigment meets intention, and surface becomes memory. I work across painting, mixed media, and sculptural installation.
Each piece begins as a question I cannot answer in words. The studio is where I negotiate that silence — building up layers, tearing them back, listening to what wants to remain.
I exhibit internationally and maintain an open atelier practice in Amsterdam, welcoming collectors, curators, and the genuinely curious to visit the work in progress.
Open Atelier
Kloveniersburgwal 92, Amsterdam
20/07/2024
11:00 — 16:00
Private View — Collector Preview — New Works
A focused preview for collectors and institutional representatives ahead of the September exhibition. Six new large-format canvases will be shown for the first time.
Writing on process, material & practice
Galerie Licht — Notes After the Opening
The show is up. Six large canvases, three ceramic works, the steel piece. Some thoughts on what it felt like to see the work together…
The Vessel and the Void
Ceramic work taught me something that painting could not: that the interior of a form is as meaningful as its exterior…
On the Act of Erasure
There is a moment in every painting where I have to decide whether to keep what I have built or begin removing it…