Jen Dyck
&
Steve Mennie
Headbones Gallery
May 11 - June 16
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Headbones Gallery
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Arts Wells
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Jen Dyck & Steve Mennie
On the outskirts of Salmon Arm, in an adobe home with
straw-bale-thick walls is the home of Jen Dyck and Steve
Mennie.
Jen Dyck is a jazz pianist and a collage artist. Steve
Mennie is a printmaker, drawer, painter and jazz
drummer. The couple is creativity personified.
Built on her dreams, Jen Dyck’s collage works depict
interior spaces constructed of snippets from National
Geographic, Life, ladies journals and whatever magazine
is worthy of her cull. Dyck’s scenarios are peopled with
characters engaged in zany situations charged with the
illogical inventions and happenstance of her remembered
sleeping state. With an uncanny familiarity, the work
haunts, like a nudge in the ribs of awareness.
There is an obsessive bent to Steve Mennie’s art works
that are carefully tuned through his particular process
to result in a solid end, each piece is worked. Veering
between finely crafted figurative work and painterly
psychological abstracts – and now and again combining
the two realms – each piece is both created and
conceived. Mennie’s visual acrobatics overcome the
desire to understand process as he overwhelms any
disbelief with a brilliant slight of hand.
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