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Date(s) - January 21, 2025 - February 7, 2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

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Directions Gallery

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John Dickinson’s Reliable Appearances will be in the Directions Gallery from January 21 – February 7, 2025. There will be an artist talk on Friday, February 7, 4-5p.m. in F101, followed by a closing reception in the gallery 5-7p.m.

Dinghy Rig is pleased to welcome John Dickinson for a solo show in the Directions Gallery at CSU – his Alma Mater, a Dumasian vingt ans après the time he first arrived here. Currently a professor at New Mexico State University, John Dickinson is a sculptor, a draughtsman, an artist who does and does not acknowledge media-specificity, and a man of subtle humor. Among the themes manifest in Dickinson’s practice is a keen interest in negation, in the practices of those contrarians our culture still casts as jesters, and in meaning’s relationship to non-meaning, all red herrings included. In brief, Dickinson is interested in language games, visual or otherwise. Like Lyn Hejinian, he is involved not so much with the fact that pieces of art, literature, or philosophy are about something but in how aboutness itself emerges1. The imprint, the transfer, the cutout, and castings of the sculptural mold – sometimes of large entities, sometimes of puny raisins, sliced olives, and chewed gum, as well as borrowings from popular culture, have all been part of Dickinson’s repertoire of approaches probing the power of that which is non-something.

Artist Bio:

John Dickinson received his bachelor’s degree in art and philosophy from Colorado State University in 2008 and his MFA from Southern Methodist University in 2010. His work explores questions regarding the relation between image and object, and how intention affects signification. He has exhibited at various venues, including Grounds for Sculpture, Salt Lake Art Center, The Sculpture Center – New York, The Dayton Contemporary, and Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center. He lives in Las Cruces, NM and teaches at New Mexico State University.