Jan Dickey

Jan's studio work is driven by a fascination with the materiality of preindustrial painting materials, particularly in the way they discolor and delaminate. He uses basic earth-based substances like milk, eggs, animal glues, soil, and plant dyes because they are chemically open to change. Such materials can be easily activated to peel, crack, and discolor - revealing the paint, and the substrates we slather paint over, to be living earthly stuff. Jan's work demonstrates how - like everything else - paint and paint surfaces are matter in process.