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Year of Birth
Country of Birth
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2021
1988
Poland
Wschód
Anders Dickson (b. 1988, US) - lives and works between The Netherlands and France. He attended De Ateliers in Amsterdam, Staedelschule in Frankfurt am Main, and the Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Kuenste in Karlsruhe. His work has recently been exhibited by 15 Orient Gallery (NYC) at Balice Hertling, Paris (2021); Izacaia, Vienna (2020); Stadium, Berlin (2020); Wschód Gallery, Warsaw (2019); Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2019); Lovaas Projects, Munich (2019); The Oracle, Berlin (2018); Vleeshal, Middelburg (2018); Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2018); The Beach Office, Berlin (2017), and Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2017). Dickson is a member and co-founder of the Netherlands-based artist initiative Root Canal. He is also a recent recipient of the Buning Brongers Prize (NL), and the Mondriaan Funds Grant for Emerging Talent (NL).
His upcoming exhibitions include: Wschód, Warsaw; PAKT, Amsterdam; Eliane, Bordeaux [solo exhibitions]; Kayoko Yuki Gallery, Tokyo; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt [group exhibitions]
Dickson’s works create its own hallucinatory and extraordinarily diverse world, which has been determined by elements of American culture (from ufology and high-strangeness, to the Native American figure of the ‘Trickster’), mythology, philosophy or urban, public and domestic spaces. Dickson’s visceral motifs interweave with each other creating deeply intricate compositions. His drawings and paintings roil with intense colors, abstract figures, dense landscapes. His sculptural works (objects, installations) seem like a surreal extension of them but also something of a representation of artist’s high ...
[...] It was my drawings that lead me both to painting, sculpture and installation. Drawing goes hand in hand with thought, and because of that I feel far more at home and closer to my thoughts within the realm of drawing [Anders Dickson]
[...] Through a vivid color palette, the artist creates an emotional rapport between the practices of sculpture and painting. Dickson’s sculptures manifest contorted and ambiguous bodies which hybridize and reimagine industrial machinery. In his paintings, one finds echoes of the sculptural forms, as masses appear to have been unpacked and stretched flat like origami [...] ["A Sudden Wilt", duo exhibition with Clémence de la Tour du Pin at 15 Orient Gallery, NYC hosted by Balice Hertling, Paris, 2020]