Bay College announces an exhibition, For the Drawingness, featuring artist Dietrich Sieling.
Please join us for his Artist Talk and Reception at 2pm ET on Thursday, September 28, 2023 in The Hartwig Gallery on Main Campus in Escanaba. The Hartwig Gallery is in the Catherine Bonifas – Building 200, Room 200F. The artist talk is free, and all are invited to attend.
Dietrich Sieling is a Minneapolis-based full-time artist living with complex autism. His art has been featured in solo exhibitions at SooVAC Mpls, Lagoon New York, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Kabinett and Kammer NY, Governor’s Island New York City, and at Bockley Gallery, who also represents him. In early 2023 he received a public art commission from the Metropolitan Transit Commission, his artwork due for installment in November 2023.
His group exhibitions include the Plains Art Museum in Fargo ND, as well as MADE HERE MN, Bockley Gallery Summer Potluck, Art-A-Whirl and Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis. His work is in numerous private collections across the US. He is currently at work preparing for a residency and solo exhibition with Summertime Gallery, Brooklyn NY, January – April 2024. One of the purest and surest joys of his day, and life, is a walk alone to a coffee shop – his journey and encounters along the way, culminating in a cup of delicious black coffee.
Artist Statement
Hello, my name is Dietrich Sieling. My mom Shelli is helping me write this. I have complex autism and talking and writing language is difficult. Sentences are hard but I like words very much. For the drawingness I like the white Bristol paper, 11″ X 14″ and Prismacolor pencils. Espresso and black grape color pencils are my favorites. My drawings right now are buildings that I walk by every day. Apartments and houses. Also city streets and street lights. I like to take pictures and have pictures of the people that I love and wish to see. I put them in my drawings. I am in some of the drawings. It is a different time with these 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 drawings. Face masks and a new apartment, friends and family here and gone. All the streets I walk down and the fridges in the people’s kitchens. I have many many drawings about different times. These drawings are about this time.
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