ABOUT
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.
INTERVIEWS
Building C Artist Studios presents Michael Dickter
Michael Dickter is a painter interested in the concepts of impermanence and beauty. By creating images of nature as transitory elements he exams these concepts. He works in Building C, a vibrant community of artists with studios in a former paint warehouse in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle.
Artist Michael Dickter on "The Beauty of One"
Artist Michael Dickter describes how birds serve as metaphors for nature's fragility and grace in his painting "The Beauty of One" featured in the Woodson Art Museum's 2017 "Birds in Art" exhibition
Artists Collect interview: Michael Dickter
An interview with artist Michael Dickter, curator and participant in the Artists Collect exhibition at Kirkland Arts Center (2017).