Piper Grokulsky is a painter and mixed-media artist from Memphis, TN, who explores themes of memory, dreams, and reality. Through her work, she transforms the intangible into physical form, blending these elements into expressive layers of oil paint, collage, and sculptural objects. Her use of vivid colors and recurring motifs creates a visual language that invites viewers to engage with the complexity of human experience.
She is currently an MFA candidate at University at Albany, SUNY and received her BFA from Christian Brothers University. She has shown her work in group exhibitions with the Memphis Art Salon and has received awards in the fine arts section of the CBU’s literary journal, Castings.
My work reflects the feeling of moving through overlapping versions of reality—moments, memories, and dreams that bleed into one another until they become hard to separate. The compositions often feel like the butterfly effect made visible: one figure or object rippling into another until change and consequence dissolve. I paint these moments in vivid colors, letting figures and scenes melt together, get tied up, stretch too far outward or inward, layer atop one another, drift apart, lose definition, become more highly rendered, join something new, become something new altogether, or just fade away. There’s humor in this process for me, in the uncertainty of what is happening and what is real or imagined.
