Dylan T Graham

Works on Paper

2011-11-03T23:35:00.000-07:00

Cameo Framers
198 Long Street
Waterkloof
Tel: (012) 460 5497

For more information contact:
Stuart @ 082 923 2551

trent.art@gmail.com

www.trent-art.co.za

Works at Pillory

2011-08-30T08:11:00.000-07:00

PILLORY

2011-07-20T04:07:00.001-07:00

PILLORY

Dylan T Graham

The artist strives towards the unbiased observation of whatever presents itself
and so doing captures the ambiguities and dualities present within people and phenomena

3 August 2011 18h00

Opening speaker Carl Jeppe

Please join us for a glass of wine and to meet the artist

Artspace Chester Court 142 Jan Smuts Avenue Parkwood, 2193
Tel +27 (0) 11 880 8802 Fax +27 (0) 86 649 8551
Mobile +27 (0) 82 651 47 02
Email artspace@wol.co.za
Hours Tues to Sat 10h00 - 17h30 Sat 10h00 - 15h30
http://www.artspace-jhb.co.za/

Preview by Appointment
Exhibition ends 31 August 2011

Werke vir Gemeen

2011-05-06T04:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205893866111715

GEMEEN

2011-05-04T23:26:00.001-07:00

Gemeen.

Time	Friday, May 6 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location	177 umkomaas street, ashley gardens, pretoria



	Spank Me Art presents: :: gemeen :: a group exhibition by olaf bisschoff, dylan graham and johann nortje date: friday, 6 may 2011 time: 18:00 place: earthworld architects (past pro arte alphen park school on right hand side, over garsfontein road, left into umkomaas street)

Exhibition with Stuart Trent

2011-03-14T04:01:00.000-07:00

Stuart Trent invites you to an exhibition

Olaf Bisschoff and Dylan Graham

Trent Gallery at Cameo Framers

Olaf Bisschoff

17 March – 30 March 2011

Opening Thursday 17 March at 18:30

We will be having the Long Street Art and Antique market on Saturday 19^th March, 09:00 to 12:30

Cameo Framers
198 Long Street
Waterkloof
Tel: (012) 460 5497

For more information contact:
Stuart @ 082 923 2551

trent.art@gmail.com

www.trent-art.co.za

Forward this mail to all your friends and interested collectors, it’s an exhibition not to be missed.

OPPITAFEL X 2010

2010-11-25T00:54:00.000-08:00

Casting bronze frames for works exhibited at OPPITAFEL X 2010 (Artspace Gallery, Rosebank).

OPPITAFEL X 2010 - An exhibition in two parts by Artspace Gallery

On the Table
Under the Table
Turn the Table
Bring to the Table
Come to the Table
From the Table

Artspace presents its regular year end showcase exhibition, OPPITAFEL. This is the tenth anniversary of Oppitafel which has seen a diverse collection of artists and designers exhibit under an array of curatorial themes.

This year's Oppitafel brief to the artists was simple: - THE TABLE.

The exhibitions close 11 December 2010, re-open on 11 January 2011 and ends 29 January 2011.

For more information about the exhibition:
Artspace
011 880 8802
Artspace@wol.co.za
www.artspace_jhb.co.za

For media enquiries please contact:

Taryn Cohn
Media Liaison for Artspace Gallery
083 6715139
taryncohn@artsourcesouthafrica.co.za

Work in Bronze Frames

2010-09-22T05:20:00.000-07:00

PHIVE

2010-08-20T01:59:00.000-07:00

Drawings

2010-07-07T01:09:00.000-07:00

NUDgE

2010-05-14T02:59:00.001-07:00

Works from 2009 Solo exhibition

2010-03-29T08:01:00.000-07:00

4 New Works

2010-03-29T07:52:00.001-07:00

The Owl and the Pussycat

2010-02-26T00:40:00.001-08:00

Pretoria News 25 Feb 2010

Dylan and Alexia in PLUS

2009-09-03T05:14:00.000-07:00

Opening Night

2009-08-31T07:52:00.000-07:00

Dylan and Alexis Vassilatos at the opening night at Artspace. The exhibition is on till the 16th of September. foto Lisa Hnatowicz FOTO24

Bronze Frames

2009-08-26T04:14:00.000-07:00

Title: Wish you were here
Medium: Oil on wood with bronze frame

Title: Bird Cage
Medium: Oil on wood with bronze frame

Write-up in The Weekender

2009-08-24T08:09:00.000-07:00

The Weekender

Some work in progress

2009-08-14T07:07:00.000-07:00

Join Us For a Glass of Wine

2009-08-14T07:01:00.000-07:00

IN ARMS

Dylan Graham

An exhibition capturing the ambiguities and dualities of people and phenomena

27 August 2009 18h00

Please join us for a glass of wine and to meet the artist

Artspace Chester Court 142 Jan Smuts Avenue Parkwood 2193
Tel +27 (0) 11 880 8802 Fax +27 (0) 86 649 8551
Mobile +27 (0) 82 651 47 02
Email artspace@wol.co.za
Hours Tues to Fri 10h00 - 17h30 Sat 10h00 - 15h30
http://www.artspace-jhb.co.za/

Preview by Appointment
Exhibition ends 16 September 2009

In Arms

2009-08-10T05:40:00.000-07:00

In Arms

When choosing a theme, image or approach for the making of a painting, there are various angles from which to proceed. Some artists want to ‘say’ something relating to (for instance) politics or contemporary issues. Some are haunted by disturbing or pleasing images, and seek to explore these relentlessly. A glance at the range of visual imagery in Graham’s paintings shows that neither of these approaches are relevant, and that a great many different kinds of objects and scenes are painted. Dustbins, brooms, bird cages, toys and people appear. Graham strives toward the unbiased observation of whatever presents itself and so doing captures the ambiguities and dualities present within people, and phenomena. In this way life and death, the beautiful and the ugly, virtue and vice are seen to co-exist, sometimes to blur or merge, and to be forever equally present, however we may favour or privilege some aspects of human nature and existence above others. The result is a rare and direct confrontation in the artwork with what is as such.

Rather than making art where message, narrative and/or concept are key, Graham strives to work at each painting free of preconceived ideas and the baggage of art discourse, as far as is possible for the trained artist. Here a strange incongruity appears, as Graham can be regarded as a ‘traditionalist’, yet does not intend to appropriate or borrow from the past. Thus the artist’s figures and portraits approach the psychological depth of Rembrandt’s representations, and yet Graham has ‘only’ tried to paint – brushstroke for brushstroke, confronting the canvas in the language of the painterly medium: colour, surface, placing, light and dark, tactile presence. Graham can, and does, observe and represent, but the images are called forth with hermeneutic honesty and directness: not as renditions but as apparitions or ‘guests’ called forth by the artist’s absence of attachment. In a vaguely numinous way, Graham’s figures and objects appear from a non-specified depth (visually and psychically), as present-at-hand in the Heideggerian sense, neutrally reposing in themselves. The artist arrives at the canvas, labours without assumption, facilitates the artwork into being and, lastly, steps aside for the viewer to determine the outcomes and implications.

Recent Work

2009-08-02T09:24:00.000-07:00