Art & Design

Professor and Department ChairBrigham Dimick is the area head of Drawing. Dimick received his MFA in Painting from Indiana University in 1991, and his BFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art in 1985. 

Artist Statement 

My works integrate two disparate worlds into one. Like all of us, I examine the rifts and affinities between my humble domestic experience against the overwhelming global ones that affect us all. Vulnerabilities of loved ones and entire species are explored simultaneously.

Many of these artworks begin by insetting a photograph of a figure within a blank expanse. The figure serves as an embryo for a slowly developed oil painting that articulates the context.  Other works begin by painting or drawing on site, serving as catalysts for further innovations in the studio.

Whether the built environment that is created in the image is the artist’s home or the cancer ward or a zoo exhibit, it is transformed by bending space and by rendering it permeable. Hence, what was static becomes dynamic, actively forming a spatial bridge that integrates private space and the larger world.  The image of an individual engaged in a private moment embodies a sense of calm within a space of active change.

 In the paintings, warped space is made from multiple vanishing points, each point a conjecture that is obeyed out of fealty to the creative enterprise. Space is dynamic, suspended in flux. Time is in the eternal present.

                                                                                                                                          -Gaston Bachelard