Amy Dyer, The Swimmer
The Swimmer
Oil on canvas
48 x 32 x 1.5 inches
Website: amydyer.art
About | Amy Dyer is a software developer by profession, and a painter by vocation. In her work as a programmer - and, increasingly, in her personal life – Dyer’s experiences are mediated through the limited sensations of computer monitors, Gorilla Glass touchscreens, and membrane-switch keyboards. Painting, however, stands apart. Painting is a tactile and embodied activity. When Dyer paints, she thinks with her hand, her eyes, and her body. The artist’s work springs from the tension between these two pursuits.
Dyer’s painting practice is riddled with paradoxes. Her process is mediated by screens, photography, and Photoshop, but her painting remains stubbornly analog, rooted in obsolescent traditions of observation. When Dyer tries to abstract or systematize her work, she finds herself pulled right back to imagery that is immediate and personal. And for every hour she spends on a computer, her paintings become that much more liquid and tactile to compensate.
On display at University Place
$2,000