The Dikeou Collection presents a conversation with artist Devon Dikeou and “Mid-Career Smear” curator, Cortney Lane Stell where they will discuss Dikeou’s extensive art practice and the making of her mid-career retrospective. This event will take place at The Dikeou Collection (1615 California St, #515) from 6-8pm and is free and open to the public
Exhibited at The Dikeou Collection and Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax (312 E Colfax Ave), as well as site-specific installations at Tiny Town and a roaming Airstream trailer, “Mid-Career Smear” encompasses Dikeou’s work as an artist for the last 30 years in New York City, Denver, and Austin. Her work has centered on the relationship of the “in-betweenness” of the various points of the artistic process – from the making and viewing of art, to the realms of collecting, dealing, and critiquing – and the varied contexts where these activities take place be it on the street, gallery, museum, or in the pages of magazine.
Devon Dikeou lives and works in NYC, Austin, and Denver. Recent solo exhibitions include “Here is New York (E.B. White),” James Fuentes Gallery, NYC (2018); “Tricia Nixon: Summer of 1973,” Futura, Prague (2018); “Pray for Me”—Pope Francis I, James Fuentes Gallery, NYC (2017) and NADA NYC (2014); “Please,” The Contemporary Austin (2013) and Outcasts Incorporated, Paris (2015); “Not Quite Mrs De Menil’s Liquor Closet,” NADA Miami Beach (2012); “Pay What You Wish, But You Must Pay Something,” NADA Miami Beach (2013); “Between The Acts,” NADA Miami Beach (2014); “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys,” Artpace San Antonio (2011); “Reserved for Ileana Sonnabend,” NADA Miami Beach (2010); “Reserved for Leo Castelli,” The Independent NYC (2010); “From the Mixed-Up Files . . .” Art Basel Statements (1998). Notable group shows include “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” (2013), “Temporarily Possessed” (2005), “The Art Mall” (1992), and “The Big Nothing” (1992) at New Museum; “Game Changer,” (2014) at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; “Colorado 1990,” Denver Art Museum (1990). Residencies include Futura, Prague (2018); Artpace, San Antonio (2011); Ssamzie Space, Soeul (2002). Collections include Kenny Schachter, The West Collection, New Museum, and Outcasts Incorporated.
Cortney Lane Stell is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Black Cube, a nomadic contemporary art museum based in Denver, Colorado. She has held independent curatorial practice since 2006, which has included curating numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally for museums, university galleries, biennials and art events. Stemming from a philosophical interest in art as communication, Stell has organized exhibitions that focus on artworks experimental in both conceptual and material nature. Stell holds a MA from the European Graduate School.
6-8pm at Dikeou Collection