Megan Dietrich: The Pie
/ Michael WarrenFebruary 11 - 25
Opening Reception: February 11, 1-3 PM
Artist in Attendance
Megan Dietrich is a Vancouver based artist whose expressive paintings examine relationships of line, colour and texture through influences of modern art history, pop culture and personal experiences of life on the west coast.
This will be her second solo-exhibition with Madrona Gallery.
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Artist Statement:
The Pie is an investigation of meaning through transformation, story, and legacy. On a literal level, the title alludes to being aware of different elements that go together to make a perfect combination.
In these paintings you’ll find layers, imprints, additions, retractions, revisions, valleys, exertions and energies. A spiritual wear and tear that speaks not only through shape, colour and rhythm but through an idiosyncratic tactility that depicts an immersive memento. With the materiality of the work, in a way I’m trying to represent growth as it exists through imperfection, iteration, fluctuation, forgiveness. Allowing a path to be driven by versions of yourself you didn’t immediately notice or expect.