NEW ORLEANS, LA
Soren Christensen is pleased to present the Name the Wind by Seattle-based artist Michael Dickter. The show will feature a new body of colorful bird studies on canvas and panel. Smith's work has been exhibited at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, The Islip Museum, Islip, New York, North Carolina Museum of Natural History in Raleigh, The Huntsville Museum in Alabama, The Walter Anderson Museum in Mississippi, The Contemporary Art Center in Mobile, Soren Christensen Gallery in New Orleans, Redbud Gallery in Houston, Clark Gallery in New York, Whitney Art Works in Portland, Maine, Dome Gallery in New York, among others. He’s had retrospective exhibitions at The Cape Cod Museum of Art in Massachusetts and The Appleton Museum in Florida.
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 his home of 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’.
“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.” - Dickter