Artist Lecture: Brigham Dimick

I was really excited for Brigham Dimick's artist lecture since I had a studio visit with him right before and I was curious to see what his work looked like. Right from the start of his lecture, I was impressed with his work. The first couple of drawings that he showed were so complex and interesting to look at. I felt like I could really relate to his work, since he creates a lot of these spaces in his drawings from his own mind. At one point he talked about his artistic process and how before he starts to work on a piece, he thinks about what it means to be human. I found this very interesting and inspiring in a way. I also really liked how he had a lot of his large drawings unfinished in some corners. He spoke about how he was interested in opening the forms on the page and the idea of the unfinished sections being apart of the drawing. I really liked these drawings and how the very detailed sections of the drawing would just fade into nothing. There was also one drawing that he showed that really interested me because he combined real objects, bricks in this case, with the drawing. I found this to be very similar to what I am experimenting with right now. The one piece that he showed that I loved the most was the beehive cut outs of his head. Its really hard for me to explain it, or even understand how he did it, but I just loved the whole meaning behind the piece, since he was deathly allergic to bees. It was like he was trying to make peace with them. He also displayed these pieces in such a beautiful way, by lighting them from the back. Overall I really enjoyed this lecture since I found that I could relate to a lot of his work and his style of working. Here are some images of my favorite pieces by him.