In this special collection of work titled, All Together, All Different, studio e has selected works spanning the past decade by Seattle artist Warren Dykeman. 

In this work one can see the progression of Dykeman’s process as he continues to hunt for “the right kind of wrong”.  He merges folk art, graphic art, Neo-primitive, and typography in his mixed-media collaged paintings and drawings. Dykeman has integrated digital designing tools into his creative process which still focuses on the tangible physicality of his works complete with the bruises of their journey to becoming. The resulting works showcase the artist’s signature iconography including exquisite weeds, “big dumb boots”, potted shrubbery, flaming wigs, floating scaffolding, and mysterious silhouetted figures all jostling one another in  disarming confrontation.

“Odd characters, bizarro plants, typographical signs, fragments of buildings, the language of the streets and roadsides, everyday objects… Warren Dykeman’s paintings swallow the codes of contemporary society, in a continuity of the history of American art, like a machine that digests them, compiles them, spits them back out, articulates them. A font of creativity to inspire neo-ethnic designs that speak of us, of our surroundings, mingling past, present and future with fantasy and a cool attitude. A topical take on the traditional.”  --”Première Vision”