On View
On viewObject number2011.37
Obsession
Artist
Doug Dykehouse
(American)
Daten.d.
Mediumacrylics and oil over archival inkjet print on canvas
Dimensionscanvas: 37 1/2 × 30 in. (95.3 × 76.2 cm)
frame: 39 1/8 × 31 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (99.4 × 80.6 × 6.4 cm)
frame: 39 1/8 × 31 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (99.4 × 80.6 × 6.4 cm)
Credit LineWard H. and Cora E. Nay Director's Fund , 2011 West Michigan Area Show
Exhibition History"2011 West Michigan Area Show," KIA (May 7 - June 26, 2011).
"Surrealish: The Absurd and Unexpected," KIA Galleries 2 & 5 (June 4 - September 11, 2022)
"2024 West Michigan Area Show - Celebration of Purchase Prize winners in honor of KIA's 100th Anniversary," KIA Gallery 4 (May 3 - August 18, 2024)Label Text"In this painting, Kalamazoo artist Doug Dykehouse has filled a refrigerator with not only food and drink but also technology and VHS tapes, jewelry, and shoes. Multiple sets of arms grasp from the void behind, desperately clinging to the appliance—filled with sustenance and status symbols—which opens up to a vast seascape.
About Obsession Dykehouse has said, “It’s a metaphor for all of our possessions and all the things we value and take comfort in and just beyond that door, we can access, if we choose, nature. Something really quite wonderful that’s not all busy and plastic.”"
[from the exhibition, Surrealish: The Absurd and Unexpected, 2022]
