Armed with a penchant for discarded junk, self-taught artist Tiara Grayson, reinforces the concept that art can be made from anything. She is a mixed-media artist whose work explores structure, memory, and transformation through abstraction. Working with reclaimed and found materials—including cardboard packaging, metal, fabric, and industrial objects—she builds layered compositions that balance precision with imperfection.
Her practice is rooted in process: cutting, sanding, assembling, and reworking surfaces until forms emerge through accumulation and erosion. These materials carry traces of everyday use, allowing the work to reflect themes of resilience, renewal, and quiet endurance.
Grayson’s visual language draws from modernist abstraction, collage, and assemblage traditions, while remaining grounded in contemporary concerns around materiality and sustainability. Her work often invites close viewing, rewarding attention with subtle textures, structural rhythms, and unexpected juxtapositions.
She maintains an active studio practice and regularly exhibits in solo and group exhibitions. In addition to wall-based works, her practice extends into small-scale objects and wearable pieces created from studio remnants, further emphasizing reuse and transformation.
Grayson works from her studio in Cleveland, Ohio.
ARTIST BIO
ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice centers on mixed-media abstraction created from reclaimed and found materials. I work with cardboard packaging, metal, fabric, and industrial objects, drawn to their physical textures and the traces of use they contain.
Through cutting, layering, sanding, and reworking surfaces, I build compositions that evolve gradually over time. The process allows the materials to guide the work, balancing structure with intuition. Repetition, geometry, and subtle variations create a visual rhythm that invites close viewing.
The use of discarded materials is intentional, reflecting an interest in transformation, resilience, and renewal. By elevating overlooked objects, I explore how meaning can emerge through reassembly and care. The resulting works exist somewhere between order and imperfection, offering quiet, contemplative spaces shaped by process and material history.