JANNA DYK

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   Revising, Revisiting the Text(s), art book in progress from assembled writings, photographs, drawings, and embroidered works,  2024 - present, abridged selection.

   Revising the Text(s), site-dependent installation of images, with performed selections of text.

   With two titles initially vying for permanence (“Revising the Text(s)” and “Revisiting the Text(s)”), this piece wrestles with the cognitive landscape shaped by a relationship and inherited mental framings. Nervously questioning her understanding of concepts like longevity and commitment, the work’s prevailing voice fumbles through navigating a 'you,' 'another you,' 'You,' 'the you,' 'THE YOU?,' and 'the you that birthed,' as well as a 'me,' a 'me is me,' an 'us,' 'us is us,' and a multitude of unnamed 'we’s.'  Assembled from both remembered and imagined words, the voice of this work attempts to hold the multiplicity and situate itself in uncertainty.

   EXHIBITIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, & AFFILIATED READINGS: 

   2020 “Twelve Labors: #3,” curated by Rachel Hillery, Hercules Art, NY, January.

   2019 “Mimeo Microphone,” St. Mark’s Poetry Project, curated by Laura Henriksen, performative reading, Nov. 4.

   2018 “Revising the Text(s),” ArtSlant, abridged e-book with hypertext (offered), edited by Joel Kuennan.

   2017 Various Existential Angsts, group exhibition, NARS Gallery, curated by Eriola Pira, Brooklyn, NY, Sept.

   2017 OPEN STUDIOS, Marble House Project, Vermont, May.

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   "'Sometimes the curtains part...,' 1/6 - 3/10/86, 11/01 - 11/03/21," engagements 1-22

   

   

   

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     "'Sometimes the curtains part...,' 1/6 - 3/10/86, 11/01 - 11/03/21," engagements 1-22

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   Untitled (Journals Found & Kept), 2018 - ongoing, analogue photographs of handwritten journal entries, found and created, size variable.

   When a family member passed away in 2017 and an uncle suggested handing-around her journals as everyone fiddled reflectively about the living room after her memorial service, I began thinking about this weird and intimate posthumous portrait of selfhood that is one’s private written life. For instance, we read several of her unsent love poems to someone who seemed to be a coworker... to our knowledge, a relationship never actualized, never acknowledged verbally. Apparently upon her death, Sontag’s own journals too held an emotional rhizome, atypical of the pointed thought so marked by her other writing... How do our inner thoughts carry into life actions and perceptions that implicate the world beyond our front door?

   EXHIBITIONS & COLLECTIONS:

   2021 Writ, group exhibition, curated by Sarah E. Brook, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

   2019 Install/Deinstall, experimental group exhibition, curated by Gabriela Vainsencher, 601 ArtSpace, NY, NY.

   2018 “Instant Satisfaction,” group exhibition, Happy Lucky No.1, curated by Andrew Zaca, Brooklyn, NY.

   2018 Private Psychotherapy Practice, Downtown Manhattan, NY.

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   is this it? (. / Is / this / it / this / is / it / ?,)

   2016-19

   is this it? is a series of Digital C-Prints of hand-embroidered texts, whose meanings alter poetically depending on the way they are installed in a space.

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   "I'm Not Thinking Right Now," graphite and thread with needle through book (1960s) on consciousness.

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     "I'm Not Thinking Right Now," graphite and thread with needle through book (1960s) on consciousness.

   "I'm not thinking right now..." 

   2013

   Book (published 1960s) with embroidered thread, graphite and needle.

   Installation view from "Unravelled," Beirut Art Center, curated by Rachel Dedman and Marie Muraccolie, with artists Majd Abdel Hamid, Mounira Al Solh, Yto Barrada, Taysir Batniji, Alighiero e Boetti, Michele Cohen, Janna Dyk, Mona Hatoum, Sheila Hicks, Annette Messager, Khalil Rabah, Karen Reimer, Nasri Sayegh, Laure Tixier, and Raed Yassin.

   I'M NOT THINKING RIGHT NOW - EXHIBITIONS & PRESS:

   2016 Unravelled, group exhibition, Beirut Art Center, curated by Marie Muracciole, Rachel Dedman, Lebanon.

   "Unravelled," The New York Times, Global Art Section, September 9, 2016

   "Sortir la broderie de son carcan << domestique et pas sexy>>," L'Orient Du Jour, October 6, 2016

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   "Sortir la broderie de son carcan << domestique et pas sexy>>," L'Orient Du Jour, October 6, 2016

   "Et aussi dans I am not thinking right now de Janna Dyk qui vient chambouler l'ordre des choses en insérant des fils partout au-dessus des pages de The Origins and History of Consciousness, un ouvrage de Erich Neumann qui corrobore la pensée controversée de Carl Jung qui prétendait que la conscience est un attribut strictement masculin. La preuve qu'on peut piocher dans un « art du passé », et, avec, inventer l'avenir."

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   "Some people," graphite and embroidery on paper, 2013

   From the series:  Conversational Mathematics

   EXHIBITIONS/PRESS:

   Shall We Talk, or Will We Just Gaze?,” Hunter College 205 Hudson, NY, 2013.

   “Janna Dyk: Shall We Talk, or Will We Just Gaze?,” Curator Magazine, May 2014^

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   "conversational mathematics"
   Rice-paper book with ink and embroidery
   2013

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   “Sit here, -”, 2015
   Embroidery and needlepoint on canvas
   13x19 in.

   From series To Tell You (Was to Not)

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   "Through a Glass Dimly," interactive performance, in "All Of The Above" curated by Michael Benrube and Keena Gonzalez, at The Church Of St Paul The Apostle. Image (c) 2013 JML Photo.
   

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     "Through a Glass Dimly," interactive performance, in "All Of The Above" curated by Michael Benrube and Keena Gonzalez, at The Church Of St Paul The Apostle. Image (c) 2013 JML Photo.
     

   "Through a Glass Dimly," interactive performance with sculpture commissioned for The Church of St. Paul the Apostle.

   2013

   EXHIBITIONS/PRESS:

   "All Of The Above," curated by Michael Benrube † and Keena Gonzalez, at The Church Of St Paul The Apostle, New York, New York.

   Image (c) 2013 JML Photo.
   

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    Alignment,

    from Communication Objects, 2012

    Digital C-Prints

    16 x 20 in.

    

    

    

    

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      Alignment,

      from Communication Objects, 2012

      Digital C-Prints

      16 x 20 in.

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    Communication Objects, 2012

    Digital C-Prints

    16 x 20 in.

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    21 DAYS

    2009-2010 / 2020

    For three weeks in 2009, pre-selfie-culture, 36 people from 6 countries were asked to take a photo and write of themselves, sent to the artist.  In 2020 the project’s documents were excavated for an exhibition on technology and vulnerability.

    EXHIBITIONS, AFFILIATED PROGRAMMING, PRESS, BIBLIOGRAPHY:

    2020 “Redirect,” group exhibition, curated by Suzanne Dittenbar, Tiger Strikes Asteroid SE /Revolve/RAMP Gallery, Asheville, NC, Jan. 24 - Feb. 24.

    2020 Panel discussion on technology and changing sociopolitical landscapes, with Lei Han, Joyce Lee, Ben Duvall, and Victoria Bradbury, RAMP, Asheville, NC, Jan. 

    2020   “Slow Connection: TSA presents REDIRECT in Asheville,” BURNAWAY Art Review, Feb. 13, 2020 

    2020    Essay by Paddy Johnson, Exhibition Catalogue, TXTbooks (Brooklyn) and TSA SE (Asheville).

12. SELECT EXHIBITIONS:

    2024 "Friendship," group exhibition, curated by Gabriela Vainsencher, 601Artspace, New York, NY.

    2021 “Winter Light,” group exhibition, curated by Sasha Chavchavadze (Footnote Gallery), Gowanus Dredgers, December, Brooklyn, NY.

    2021 “Writ,” group exhibition,  curator Sarah E. Brook, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

    2020  “Projections on Empathy,” curator James Czarzan, Famous Chimps, a non-corporeal gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

    2020  “Redirect,” group exhibition, curator Suzanne Dittenbar, Tiger Strikes Asteroid SE/Revolve/RAMP Gallery, Asheville, NC.

    2019  ascent/assent, group exhibition, curator Joyce Lee, Buckley Memorial Gallery, Madeleine L’Engle Foundation, New York.

    2019  Install/Deinstall, experimental group exhibition, curator Gabriela Vainsencher, 601 ArtSpace, New York.

    2019  Every Woman Biennial, group exhibition, 222 Broadway, curator C. Finley, New York, NY.

    2018  “Instant Satisfaction,” group exhibition, Happy Lucky No.1, curator Andrew Zaca, Brooklyn, NY.

    2018  “Art and Friendship,” group exhibition, Green Door Gallery, curator Paul Anel.  Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    2017  Various Existential Angsts, group exhibition, NARS Gallery, curator Eriola Pira, Brooklyn, NY.

    2016  Unraveled, group exhibition, Beirut Art Center, curator Marie Muracciole, Rachel Dedman, Beirut, Lebanon.

    2015  Empty, group exhibition, curator Janna Luttrell, Buckley Memorial Gallery, NY.

    2015  Hunter MFA Graduate Exhibition, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY.

    2014  Double Take, group exhibition, curator Brooke Tomillo, Youme Haus, Williamsburg, NY.

    2014  Legacy, group exhibition, curator Lorinne Lee, Silverdale, WA.

    2014  Art Auction, juried exhibition, Novella Gallery, New York, New York.   

    2014  “Shall We Talk or Will We Gaze?,” solo exhibition, 201 Hudson Gallery Project Space, New York, NY.

    2013  The Big Question, group exhibition, curator Keena Gonzalez, Michael Berube, Openings, New York, NY.

    2013  Traveling Exhibition, group exhibition, curator Elisa Clark, Brooklyn, NY.

    2013  DETOUR, May, 2013, group exhibition, Local Project, curator Elisa Clark, Long Island City, NY.