Born in 1987 Royal Oak, Michigan, stephen garrett dewyer works as an artist, writer and curator. His work has been exhibited in Baltimore, MD; New Haven, CT and New York, NY. He graduated with a M.F.A. in sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 2011. He curated Propositions (http://www.propositionsatarea405.com/), 2009, an exhibition featuring the work of Neal Reinalda, Ding Ren, Glenn Shrum & Elena Volkova at Area 405 in Baltimore. He received his B.F.A. in Art History, Theory & Criticism in 2008 from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. He lives in Detroit, Michigan.
see also curriculum vitae in pdf
lives in Detroit, Michigan.
education |
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2011 |
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in sculpture |
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut |
2008 |
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) cum laude in Art History, Theory & Criticism |
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, Maryland |
selected exhibitions |
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2011 |
2011 Yale Open Studios |
Yale University School of Art |
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2011 Yale sculpture M.F.A. thesis exhibition: round one |
Yale University School of Art |
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2010 |
Second year 2011 M.F.A. exhibition |
Yale University School of Art |
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2010 Yale Open Studios |
Yale University School of Art |
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Yale Haiti Art Auction exhibition |
Yale University School of Art |
2009 |
First year 2011 M.F.A. exhibition |
Yale University School of Art |
2008 |
December 2008 Commencement Exhibition |
MICA |
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Stuttering: in a New Light, curated by Michael Benevento |
Current Gallery in conjunction with Carroll Museums Inc., Carroll Mansion, Baltimore, MD |
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Introduction to Newer Genres, curated by Benjamin Luzzatto |
MICA |
curatorial projects |
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2008 – 09 |
Propositions |
Area 405, Baltimore, Maryland |
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selected awards |
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2009 |
Scholarship |
Yale University School of Art |
2007 |
Interdisciplinary Sculpture Departmental Recognition Award |
MICA |
2006 |
Achievement Award |
MICA |
2005 |
Presidential Scholarship |
MICA |
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Fannie B. Thalheimer Scholarship |
MICA |
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Scholastic National Portfolio Award Scholarship |
MICA |
reviews |
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Lee, Key Jo. “Interrupting Subjectivity In Order to Interrupt Subjection: Refiguring the Social Imaginary in to the poor oligarchies and the wealthy poor: to (lose/ac)count by two.” Review of to the poor oligarchies and the wealthy poor: to (lose/ac)count by two, by stephen dewyer. 2011 Yale sculpture M.F.A. catalog, design of Sara Hartman. 2011: pp. 15 – 30 <http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/sculpture-mfa-2011/15982346> |
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Noonan, Kate. "This is Not a Pipe: group show not really in the place you see it." Review of Propositions, curated by stephen dewyer. Baltimore Citypaper. 11 March 2009 <http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=17686> |
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Ober, Cara. "Photos from Propositions." Review of Propositions, curated by stephen dewyer. Bmore Art. 22 February 2009 <http://bmoreart.blogspot.com/2009/02/photos-from-propositions-at-area-405.html> |
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Zwirner, Lucas. “Sculpture MFA Showcases Personal Space.” Review of 2011 Yale sculpture M.F.A. thesis exhibition: round one. Yale Daily News. Friday, 18 February 2011 <http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/feb/17/sculpture-mfa-showcases-personal-space/> |
interviews |
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Block, Holly. interview with stephen dewyer. “18 November 2010 interview at the Bronx Museum of the Arts with Holly Block and stephen dewyer on art in Latin America.” The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York. 18 November 2010 <http://www.stephengdewyer.com/18_November_2010_ |
essays |
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Dewyer, Stephen. "Cultural Difference in Contemporary Art: Countering Cultural Imperialism." BmoreArt. Edited by Cara Ober. Baltimore, MD. 14 August 2009 <http://bmoreart.blogspot.com/2009/08/cultural-difference-in-contemporary-art.html#links> |
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Dewyer, Stephen. “Propositions: a Placeless Space.” Propositions. Edited and with an introduction by stephen dewyer. Baltimore, MD: Ingrid Burrington and Carey Chiaia. 2009: pp. 4 -18 <http://www.propositionsatarea405.com/Propositions_a_Placeless_Space.html> |
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Dewyer, Stephen. "September review of art in New Haven, Connecticut by Stephen Garrett Dewyer." BmoreArt. Edited by Cara Ober. Baltimore, MD. 5 October 2009 <http://bmoreart.blogspot.com/2009/10/september-review-of-art-in-new-haven.html> |
statement for art practice
16 March 2011
If critical art practices produce images in order for them to locate a counter-imagination to that produced by capitalism, then such a practice imagines the possibility of labor. Such a possibility I aim to make visible via images in which labor locates within the economy of the dissemination of images and not in any one image.
I am interested in making work about the process by which another subject inflects the subject of the work. This becomes a way of making work about the impossibility of the work to imagine itself. It also implies a play in meaning that changes from one location to another location. A change in location requires someone else to see it.
I attempt to make work about how sensibilities disseminate from one location to another location. Dissemination makes possible the impossibility of experiencing the same inequality (nonsense) elsewhere. If sensibilities become inscribed by the impossibility of experiencing the same nonsense, they also make possible the experience of the same sense (equality). I am interested in blurring sense and nonsense.
Differences between images happen by way of dissemination and reveals intelligence to have no definitive end in any one image. This means that any image locates intelligence. I decided to become an artist, in part, since I was having difficulty developing a coherent syntax in my speech and art seemed to be a way of representing myself where coherence to a way of speaking was not necessary.
My intention will involve critically altering notions of aesthetics from those that are ambivalent to the dissemination of images to ones that make visible this process.