Peter Dykuis "Recalibration #2: Vertical Roll (Radiant Godhead) 2021 - 2023"

Vertical Roll (Radiant Godhead) is built entirely out of orphaned panels that did not fit elsewhere in my studio practice so I continued to explore vertical, non-rectangular constructions. It has been exhibited in Halifax in a few previous iterations before settling into this final version where 40% of the original individual panels were coated with black encaustic wax at HERMES in January 2024.

Dimensions:
6"x6"

Material:
Encaustic on collaged paper

Artist Bio:
Peter Dykhuis was born in London, Ontario. He is a former resident of Queen West in Toronto and is an internationally exhibiting visual artist and critical writer who, since 1991, lives and practices in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the former Director/Curator of the Dalhousie Art Gallery (2007 – 2022) and, prior to that, Director of the Anna Leonowens Gallery at NSCAD University (1996 – 2007).

Dykhuis is also a founding director of HERMES in 2014 and has, since retirement from formal arts administration in 2022, happily focused on his studio practice and the promotion of HERMES as an artists’ collective/cooperative.

www.dykhuis.ca