about

Trained as a visual artist, I create and investigate systems. My inquiries have ranged from the mildly lyrical—how can I make a fictitious map convincing?—to problem solving—how do I transform all my household trash into new, raw material? This work comes from a pleasure in discovering what's connected—and what's not—and recursively arriving at the recognition that neither speed nor simple answers seems that helpful. Lately, I've come to believe that much of my work (the invented maps, the hyper-focused garbage transformations) represents mind-centered consciousness trying to break through itself.

Over the last several years, while printing textiles, I invented an analog system, Embodied Algorithms. Through the actions of conscious agents, Embodied Algorithms fosters the emergence of infinitely variable patterns on a plane. This has been my main focus since 2018, as I figure out how to describe and share it.

For certain projects, I assume an alter ego. As of this writing, alter egos are : Energy Being, Logo Removal Service, and Riamir, who has their own (unpublished, too-personal-to-share-yet) comic strip. Earlier alter egos, such as Dym Products, Inc., have effectively retired. I occasionally perform "live manufacturing," as myself or as someone else.

Based in California, I've shown work at museums and galleries in the US and abroad, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art and SFMOMA,* which has at least two and maybe three pieces in the permanent collection, Susanne Vielmetter, PØST-LA, and Pierogi. Residencies include The Watermill (Long Island), Cité des Arts (Paris), Kala Art Institute (Berkeley) and Stanford University Digital Art Center. In 2018, several drawings I created in the 1990s were in "Contraption" at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. I was a 2020 LABA East Bay Fellow. In 2021, with graphic designer Rachel Berger, I received a grant from Berkeley's Civic Arts Commission to work on a site-based project HERE, HERE.

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Email: dym AT dymproducts DOT com