Spotlight Artist

Dillon Beck

Midwest
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Detour

Abstract graphic of colorful highways with a blue car merging in.

aerosol on cradled wood panel, framed

Density

Pattern of house icons in warm colors with a blue square in the center.

aerosol on cradled wood panel, framed

Sprawl

Pattern of small blue houses on a red and purple geometric background.

aerosol on cradled wood panel, framed

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Artist Statement

 Dillon Beck is a painter, muralist, and designer based out of Columbus, Ohio. He fuses design elements with traditional painting, following and breaking the rules of the former to create a unique visual vocabulary. Hard-edged, regulated forms like stairs, tunnels, roadways, and homes are rendered in shifting gradient colors, providing formal movement and cadence to otherwise ambiguous scenes. His artistic pieces regularly explore the concepts of space and time, and often times the intention behind his artwork is to allow viewers to feel as though they can enter his paintings and explore the worlds within them. His work has always found its footing somewhere in the realm between analog and digital, between the real and the impossible—a place you’ve never been that somehow feels oddly familiar.

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