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| Dyan Marie’s Transmissions are images that begin as performances for the camera. Enhanced with the computer, they become vehicles to explore diverse ideas about the nature of things in regards to social and built physical environments, social networks, news, history, stories, personal memories and discussions, war and peace, institutions and illness. Each of these different zones is filtered through the body in the work as extensions, armatures or expulsions. “I attempt to mix a sense of fate with an evolutionary will to struggle, evolve, and regenerate,” Marie says. “The response to this confluence of content is to let things flow in and out, like air moving through lungs. In the process, the work makes the unseen visible by giving it representational shape.” Animated light-boxes and the projection work, Worknest, create additional image platforms for the artist’s socially engaged and sometimes comic images. Dyan is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and the University Of Waterloo , Masters of Fine Arts Program. She has initiated various organizations, events, interventions and festivals. She is the founder of Cold City Gallery, ARTATWORK, DIG IN, Bloor Magazine and co-founded C Magazine and is the director of her project space, Dupont/Dyan Marie Projects. Awards for urban projects include Canadian Urban Institute’s, City Soul, the Government of Canada’s Community Builders Award, the Ontario Provincial Government’s Good Citizen Award and the City of Toronto ’s Clean and Beautiful Award. Her work is in the collection of the National Gallery Of Canada, University of Toronto , Dan Donovon Collection, Glenbow Museum , Calgary , Museum of Contemporary Art , Ghent , Belgium , External Affairs, Government of Canada among others. |
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