Dyanna Dimick

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 these mediums 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 a puzzle. 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, in her sustainable collages. Focusing on ecology and the overload of today’s consumerism culture. Politics and our modern obsession with vanity occasionally sneak into her work.

Dyanna lives and works in California.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS/GRANTS

2017
Becoming The Beach Installation, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Vanity ll, The Laundry Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
Fall OS Show, Joy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015
Lost+Found, Dogpatch Studios, San Francisco, CA
Listen, Sundance Kabuki, San Francisco, CA
Found, Storefront Gallery, 49 Geary Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2014
Skyline Studio, San Francisco, CA
2013
Jackson Square Dentistry/Gallery, San Francisco, CA
District, San Francisco, CA
2009
Salon Eleven, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Vanity, Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin Grant

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2018
Urban Edge, Avenue 12 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Which Way Is Up, Curated State, 1015 Castro St. San Francisco, CA
Nite Life, Senator Scott Wiener’s Office, San Francisco, CA
Into The Wild, Art Attack SF, San Francisco, CA
February ’18 Group Exhibition, Art Attack SF, San Francisco, CA
2017
SFOS Exhibition, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fall OS Hub Show, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fall OS Hub Show, Art Attack SF Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Maker Thursdays, Art Attack SF Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Spring Show, Back To The Picture 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
Winter Group Show, Hotel Triton, San Francisco, CA
You Have A Voice, 3rd Street Village Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Arkitip x Ello Art Exhibition, January 2017, Online
2016
Caution May Be Hot, Long Weekend, Oakland, CA
Caution May Be Hot, Fayes, San Francisco, CA
Fall OS Exhibition, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
ArtLaunch, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
The Art Of Drought, Art Share L.A., Perimeter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Townsend, 2 Tounsend St., San Francisco, CA
Sketch Tuesdays, 111 Minna, San Francisco, CA
SFADA First Thursday Art, Storefront HQ Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014
Artisan Series Regional Final, RUSH Philanthropic Arts Foundation, Betti Ono Gallery, Oakland, CA
Summer Search, Firehouse 8, San Francisco, CA
Bringing Down The Walls, Tank 18, San Francisco, CA
2013
North Beach First Fridays, San Francisco, CA
Bases Product Showcase, ArtTwo50, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2011
Art Show 2011 for Mr. Brainwash, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Peace Project, Whole 9 Gallery, Culver City, CA
Peace Project, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Peace Project, Max Lange Gallery, New York, NY
Skate This Art, San Francisco, CA
Artists for Ethiopia, Oakland, CA
2008
Completely Neutral Tree Sale, Gallery 1927, Los Angeles, CA

PUBLICATIONS

Arkitip Magazine, Ello, Issue No. 0062, January 2017
Sant’ Angelo, Scott A.: “Your Weekly Ello: Arkitip x Ello”, Arkitip, Inc., August 3, 2016
Vail, Patrick: “Get To Know-Dyanna Dimick”, Vail + Young, January 5, 2016
Lundy, Alexis: “Fine Artist, Dyanna Dimick selected by Sundance Cinemas via StudioVox for Gallery Exhibition”, PRLog, August 26, 2015.
Lundy, Alexis: “Sundance Exhibition L I S T E N by Fine Artist Dyanna Dimick”, StudioVox, August 26, 2015
Lundy, Alexis: “20 FABULOUS Fine Art Selfies”, StudioVox, February 18, 2015
Hancock, Jackie: JANK Magazine, issue two, October 2014 p.8-15
Ohanian, Devin: “Weekly Inspiration #25”, theDNAlife.com, August 8, 2014
Arts Brookfield: “Art Set Free”, artsbrookfield25.com, June 18, 2014
Bucciaglia, Cole: Psychopomp Magazine, Issue 2, Winter 2014, p.18
Robehmed, Natalie: “Picture This: An App That Puts Art On Your Walls For Cheap”, Forbes Magazine, July 26, 2013
Matheson, Whitney: “Cool app: ARTtwo50 sells original, affordable art” USA Today, July 25, 2013
McGinley, Mara: “Modern Surrealist”, Nomic, May 16, 2013
Zook, Liz Kelly: “Featured Artist: Dyanna Dimick”, Furies Magazine, August 28, 2012
Mason, Laura: “Exquisite Corpse Game: The Final Round”, 7×7 Magazine, January 10, 2011