Quandrants

Art by Spencer Grey
Skateboard

Spencer Fortner began writing the name Grey on his artwork since 2008 after having a deep conversation on one of his first psychedelic mushroom journeys, with friends Chris Brown and Chris Black about the colors that represented their being. Both Chris Brown and Chris Black agreed that if a color were to represent Spencer, it was Gray. Though Spencer spelled it Grey and thus Spencer Grey was born as this mind and being opened up to the outside world as a young adult, having been raised by conservative parents in the sleepy suburbs of Beaverton, Oregon. Born with a deep imagination, Spencer began creating since infancy. In elementary school, Spencer drew images of cosmic battles among animal like humanoids, also cowboys, birds, the Chicago bulls emblem, and various creatures of fantasy. Spencer treated as much of all of schooling as art class as much as possible while also receiving passing grades to graduate. Sabina Wohlfeiler was a very supportive teacher of his creativity throughout grade school. By elementary school, Spencer had developed a deep love for movies, learning about how they were made, along with directors, their visions, and the history of filmmaking. Fortunately for Spencer, there was a cariculum that offered 11 varying film classes. Those classes were taught by what became Spencer's favorite high school teacher Kevin Bennett who fed Spencer's imagination through the magic of filmmaking. After graduating high-school, and visiting Germany, Denmark, & Sweden, Spencer moved to Portland and began attending classes at The Art Institute of Portland for a Bachelors degree in Video & Film. During the first and only year of higher schooling Spencer's passion for filmmaking diminished as the magic that Spencer was experiencing was mostly outside of school. Spencer was beginning to root in the tail of the Portland punk scene and freight train hopping life style. During those years of Spencer's late teens, early twenties Spencer drew up works of art that sold as one-offs with imagery incorporating detailed beast like creatures, wild patterns found in nature inspired from long hikes with Dad, and groovy visual messages of various psychedelics. Most of Spencer's art was being expressed mainly through micron pen on paper or spray can stencils on skateboards until reaching Spencer's mid twenties where painting in colorful acrylic ink and paint began. Spencer creates works of art to this day, currently based in Seattle, with a vision to share with the world. Spencer has shown artworks on walls in Oregon and Washington, in many homes, shops and Fulcrum Gallery in Tacoma, Washington.