Artist Megan Dyck
Title Larkspur
Media acrylic on wood board
Dated
2023
Size 12 x 12 in. / 30.5 x 30.5 cm.
Sold $300
Estimate $475 - $950
Notes
bears artist's name, title and date on gallery label verso; unframed
Provenance
generously donated by the artist; proceeds will be donated to the Kiyooka Ohe Art Centre and Sculpture Park in Springbank, Alberta. KOAC is a contemporary art centre founded by artists Harry Kiyooka and Katie Ohe where visitors can visit an impressive collection of outdoor sculptures while enjoying the sanctuary of environment. For more information or to donate directly, visit koartscentre.org
Biographical Information
Megan Dyck ~ [21st century] Canadian
see artist's website megandyck.com;
Megan Dyck is an artist and educator living and working in Calgary, AB. Dyck holds a BFA in Painting from AUArts and earned an MFA in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. In addition to her own studio practice, Dyck has worked as an educator and researcher for the last 10 years, the majority of which have been at AUArts (formerly ACAD), teaching drawing, painting and colour theory.
As a painter preoccupied with deconstructed imagery of the body, Megan Dyck’s work draws from fragmented representations of the human figure as observed in film, photography, and social media. Deploying collage as an essential preliminary process where isolated components of the body are arranged to form new composite images, her paintings carefully merge scenes of close-up faces, isolated body parts, and cut-away gestures. By applying cinematic considerations of splicing, super-imposing, sequencing, and montage within a pictorial context, these works collectively investigate states of anxiety and euphoria associated with experiencing desire.