About me
DYANNA DIMICK, lets material and her eco-friendly lifestyle drive her creative process.
An ecological consciousness lies close to the heart of California native Dyanna’s art, which incorporates reused and found material. While studying sculpture at UC Santa Cruz, her interest in found medium grew.
Dyanna's process starts well before a blank canvas. She sees paintings everywhere. Noticing and collecting pieces from her surroundings to use as material. This keeps her attuned to her environment. "Our eyes tune out thousands of objects around us because we don't have a current need for them or they don't seem important to us." The sun bleached plastic, the inside of an envelope, these daily materials are necessary for her process. Dyanna curates the found pieces in an intuitive way, like puzzle pieces. If you take time to look, they often tell a story.
Conscious of the consumerism cycle, she'd rather find her materials and create work with things that already exist in the world. We live with pollution. We accept it and it becomes invisible. She uses the found material as part of her palette to mimic this.
Dyanna explores color + shape, material and texture to create a visual narrative. She presents a strong balance and order in her work. Focusing on ecology and the overload of today’s consumerism culture. Our modern obsession with vanity occasionally sneaks into her work.
Dyanna lives and works in California.
Work / Education
BA in Fine Art, Sculpture emphasis from UC Santa Cruz
Select Solo Exhibitions/Awards:
2017 Becoming The Beach Installation, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Listen, Sundance Kabuki, San Francisco, CA
Found, Storefront Gallery, 49 Geary Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2004 William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin Grant
Select Group Exhibitions:
2018 Nite Life, Senator Scott Wiener's Office, San Francisco, CA
Into The Wild, Art Attack SF, San Francisco, CA
2017 SFOS Exhibition, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
3990 Folsom Street, Residence designed by Christopher Haas of de Young, San Francisco, CA
Message In A Bottle, by Park Life, Surfrider Foundation and Busvan, Busvan, San Francisco, CA
You Have A Voice, 3rd Street Village Gallery, San Francisco, CA
