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Warren Dykeman I All Together, All Different
02.07.2020 - 03.30.2020
Art Opening & Artist’s Reception: Friday, February 7th, 5-8pm
Art & Wine: Friday, March 6, 5-8pm
studio e | Warren Dykeman
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”
studio e is a contemporary art space committed to exploring new territories in creative expression through a diverse program of exhibitions, talks and temporary in-situ projects. Founded in 2014 by long time Georgetown resident Dawna Holloway as a way to support artists and encourage them to stretch their own definitions of their work – whether they be established or emerging – studio e is in itself a challenge to raise the bar ever higher. What started as an exercise in creating space for artists has become a project of creating place, with all of the relationships that grow out of that. Whether it be through gallery lectures and artist talks, sharing space with independent curators like Melissa E. Feldman or with MAAKE Magazine, our micro-gallery (the vatican) or our pop-up installations on Capitol Hill and elsewhere, studio e aims to expand the definition of how a gallery fosters conversation and develops audience. With a reach that is international as well as local, studio e is a labor of love, something of a commercial gallery with the beating heart (and creative flexibility of) an alternative space
studio e 609 S Brandon Seattle, WA 98108
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