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① Artwork:
Wash Me
This painting creates an allegorical map through disparate images: a bee swarm, a car, a candle snuffer and a mushroom. This composition implies a sorting process that employs unlikely pairings to discover secrets and conspiracies. The shiny black ceramic frame extends the space of the painting while its wobbly construction suggests an object in flux.
Dickson's work employs shape and pattern to understand relationships, exploring how touch, unity, boundary, overlap, tension and violence are moments of intersection. The artist works with a system of archetypal forms in a speculative alchemy—studying the essential relationships that these forms create when brought together. In Dickson's work, forms act as stand-ins for bodies, objects, cells, weather patterns and daily routines, and their interaction evokes the sympathetic vibrations that move across all things. Dickson's work shares the spirit of Shaker gift drawings, illuminated manuscripts, Islamic tiling and Celtic knots. The artist's network of forms becomes a cosmology, where pattern is the key to understanding how all things are necessarily touching.
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③ Artist:
Rose Dickson’s paintings examine essential relationships through the interactions of archetypal forms—exploring touch, unity, boundary, overlap, tension and violence as moments of intersection. The artist’s work explores the sympathetic vibrations that move across all things, bringing to mind Shaker gift drawings, illuminated manuscripts, Islamic tiling and Celtic knots. Dickson’s compositions network shapes into a cosmology, where pattern is the key to understanding how all things are necessarily touching.
BIO:
Rose Dickson was born in Portland, Oregon in 1989. The artist received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 2012, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois in 2021.
A solo exhibition of Dickson’s work, Giantess, took place at Melanie Flood Projects in Portland, Oregon in 2020.
Group exhibitions of Dickson’s work have taken place at: SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York, NY; Mana Contemporary in Chicago, Illinois; Lumber Room in Portland, Oregon; and Melanie Flood Projects in Portland, Oregon.
Dickson has been an artist in residence at: MacDowell in Peterborough, New Hampshire; Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois; and Organhaus Art Space in Chongqing, China.
Dickson lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.
This painting creates an allegorical map through disparate images: a bee swarm, a car, a candle snuffer and a mushroom. This composition implies a sorting process that employs unlikely pairings to discover secrets and conspiracies.More
- Framed: 19.2 x 13.5 in.
- Signed
