Dinghy Rig welcomed John Dickinson for a solo show in the Directions Gallery at
CSU - his Alma Mater, a Dumasian vingt ans après the time he first arrived here. Currently a
professor at New Mexico State University, John Dickinson is a sculptor, a draughtsman, an
artist who does and does not acknowledge media-specificity, and a man of subtle humor.
Among the themes manifest in Dickinson's practice is a keen interest in negation, in the
practices of those contrarians our culture still casts as jesters, and in meaning's relationship
to non-meaning, all red herrings included. In brief, Dickinson is interested in language
games, visual or otherwise. Like Lyn Hejinian, he is involved not so much with the fact that
pieces of art, literature, or philosophy are about something but in how aboutness itself
emerges. The imprint, the transfer, the cutout, and castings of the sculptural mold -
sometimes of large entities, sometimes of puny raisins, sliced olives, and chewed gum, as
well as borrowings from popular culture, have all been part of Dickinson's repertoire of
approaches probing the power of that which is non-something.

Artist Bio:
John Dickinson received his bachelor’s degree in art and philosophy from Colorado State
University in 2008 and his MFA from Southern Methodist University in 2010. His work
explores questions regarding the relation between image and object, and how intention
a]ects signification. He has exhibited at various venues, including Grounds for Sculpture,
Salt Lake Art Center, The Sculpture Center, The Dayton Contemporary, and Cincinnati
Contemporary Art Center. He lives in Las Cruces, NM and teaches at New Mexico State
University.