Biography
Michael Dickter has painted in the Northwest since the 1980's. He studied at the Art Students League in New York, and SUNY Cortland. He shows in galleries nationally and in Washington State. In 2017 he was featured in the Woodson Art Museums 42nd Annual “Birds in Art “ exhibition. His painting was bought by the Woodson for their permanent collection. He was also featured in Fine Art Connoisseurs article ‘Today’s Masters -Avian Art Take Flight’.
Artist Statement
My interest is in creating a permanent record of the impermanence of our world. In considering the exquisiteness of a moment shared, of a new connection, a new thought, an old memory, I am often stuck by the duality of permanence and impermanence all around us.
My work engages the natural world through this lens. Images of birds or flowers talk to me of connection, of beauty, of freedom, and of the precarious and profoundly precious nature of our world. Making marks on a surface, choosing colors, dripping, obscuring and replacing images talk to this through the act of painting.
Paintings are made of hundreds of distinct moments and of small decisions; each has its own "no" or a small ecstatic "yes." The finished piece is a history of those fleeting, but profound moments.
Recent Shows and/or Exhibitions
Museo Gallery | Langley, WA | 2023
Perry & Carlson | Mt Vernon, WA | 2023
Smithh and Vallee Gallery | Bird show | Edison, WA | 2023
Waterworks Gallery | Friday Harbor, WA | 2022
Simon Breitbard Fine Arts | San Francisco, CA | 2022
Museo Gallery | Langely, WA | 2022
Visions West | Bozeman MT | 2022
Museo Gallery | Langley, WA | 2021
Perry & Carlson | Mt Vernon, WA | 2021
Waterworks Gallery | Friday Harbor, WA | 2020
Museo Gallery | Langley, WA | 2020
Simon Breitbard Fine Arts | San Francisco, CA | 2020
Museo Gallery | Langely, WA | 2020
Michael Dickter has painted in the Northwest since the 1980's. He studied at the Art Students League in New York, and SUNY Cortland. He shows in galleries nationally and in Washington State. In 2017 he was featured in the Woodson Art Museums 42nd Annual “Birds in Art “ exhibition. His painting was bought by the Woodson for their permanent collection. He was also featured in Fine Art Connoisseurs article ‘Today’s Masters -Avian Art Take Flight’.
Artist Statement
My interest is in creating a permanent record of the impermanence of our world. In considering the exquisiteness of a moment shared, of a new connection, a new thought, an old memory, I am often stuck by the duality of permanence and impermanence all around us.
My work engages the natural world through this lens. Images of birds or flowers talk to me of connection, of beauty, of freedom, and of the precarious and profoundly precious nature of our world. Making marks on a surface, choosing colors, dripping, obscuring and replacing images talk to this through the act of painting.
Paintings are made of hundreds of distinct moments and of small decisions; each has its own "no" or a small ecstatic "yes." The finished piece is a history of those fleeting, but profound moments.
Recent Shows and/or Exhibitions
Museo Gallery | Langley, WA | 2023
Perry & Carlson | Mt Vernon, WA | 2023
Smithh and Vallee Gallery | Bird show | Edison, WA | 2023
Waterworks Gallery | Friday Harbor, WA | 2022
Simon Breitbard Fine Arts | San Francisco, CA | 2022
Museo Gallery | Langely, WA | 2022
Visions West | Bozeman MT | 2022
Museo Gallery | Langley, WA | 2021
Perry & Carlson | Mt Vernon, WA | 2021
Waterworks Gallery | Friday Harbor, WA | 2020
Museo Gallery | Langley, WA | 2020
Simon Breitbard Fine Arts | San Francisco, CA | 2020
Museo Gallery | Langely, WA | 2020