Amie Dicke: Open Arms
about exhibition
Amie Dicke is an image defacer. Whether caked with lipstick or liquid foundation, or brutally buffed away with sandpaper, Dicke responds to something emotional and raw in her found imagery.
Press Release
Anat Ebgi is pleased to announce Amie Dicke OPEN ARMS on view at 372 Broadway from September 6 through October 19. This is Dicke’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery and debuts works from her sandpaper abrasions and cosmetics series made during the last year along with a new installation of her ‘sugar books.’ An opening reception will take place on Friday, September 6 from 6-8 pm.
An artist talk with Barry Schwabsky will be held at the gallery Saturday, September 7th at 5 pm.
Amie Dicke is an image defacer. Her interventions dissolve, blot, and distort the appearance and surface of her source material. Her intuitive and judicious destruction directs our focus to specific off-beat details, such as a gap between the legs, or a lumpy bedspread. An acute observer, she hunts, seeking a surprising, around-the-back approach. Relying on guts and intuition, she detects some underlying possibility in an image that she can alter, erase, subdue or enhance resulting in a new picture, with new stability achieved through the conflict and balance of slippery forces.