The Dikeou Collection is pleased to announce the permanent installation of, Otter, an interactive sculpture by Lucky DeBellevue, at the exhibition space on California Street, opening Friday, October 28th, 6-8pm
Composed of multi-colored chenille and tinsel stems, Otter, was originally exhibited at the formerly Philip Morris Branch (now Altria) of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2002, and again at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art in Portland. The title is a coded reference to a body type in alternative identity culture. The viewer can walk into and sit inside of the 115″ diameter and ceiling-high sculpture.
DeBellevue was born in Crowley, Louisiana, and received his MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1987. He has lived in Manhattan for more than two decades, exhibiting work in numerous museums and galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Universidad da Buenos Aires, the Rhode Island School of Design, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Feature Gallery in New York, and John Tevis Gallery in Paris. He has been a resident at The Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program in France and a recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship of the American Academy in Rome.
“The Louisiana-native has been hailed for his intricately woven sculptures: whimsical, if sometimes also slightly disturbing, forms that often tip into anthropomorphism” [ArtForum]
“DeBellevue’s craft is prodigious and nearly faultless, so carefully worked out that hand-built layers of color fade from one to another almost like brushwork” [Flash Art International]
The Dikeou Collection is a private collection of contemporary art founded by Devon and Pany Dikeou, featuring Momoyo Torimitsu, Dan Asher, Misaki Kawaii, Vik Muniz, Lawrence Seward, Johannes VanDerBeek, Rainer Ganahl, Serge Onnen, Wade Guyton, Chris Gilmour, among others. Free and open to the public Wednesday – Friday, 11-5pm.
The Dikeou Collection also has a Pop-Up space featuring an installation by Nils Folke Anderson. The Dikeou Collection Pop-Up Space is located at 1331 Bannock St, across from the Denver Art Museum. Free and open to the public Wednesday – Friday, 11 – 5pm.