Dylan Spaysky
Born 1981 in Waterford, MI
Lives and works in Detroit, MI
Education
2007
BFA, College For Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2015
Fights, with Nolan Simon, Night Club, Chicago, IL
taz, Cue Arts Foundation, New York, NY
2014
Foot Foot, Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Fountains, Wake Gallery, Redford, MI
2010
King of Snakes: Good Times are Coming?, Cave, Detroit, MI
2007
Dylan Spaysky and Elizabeth Ladd, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
How to Remain Human, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Creative Expressions, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
2014
Paper for the Sky, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn NY
2013
Exactly, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield, MI
2012
CKTV 9th Shanghai Biennale, Brooklyn City Pavilion, Shanghai, China
La Zona, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
2011
Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
In Bloom, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2009
Nolan Smon, Loretta Farenholtz, Dylan Spacekey, Malcolm Glenn Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2007
____ and _____, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit, MI
Curatorial Projects
2015
Bailey Scieszka, Chris Riddell: Hurting, Palmer Park, Detroit, MI (Upcoming)
2013
Multimedia Messaging Service, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
2012
Six Paintings, Six Stalls, Buffalo Street Car Wash, Hamtramck, MI
Publications & Reviews
2015
Paul Smith “Review: Nolan Simon and Dylan Spaysky / Night Club,” NewCity Art, August 15
How to Remain Human, published by Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
taz, published by CUE Foundation, New York
2012
La Zona Vol. 1: Index, published by NGBK, Berlin
La Zona Vol. 2: Catalogue, published by NGBK, Berlin
Dylan Spaysky
Tacky Glue
November 7th – December 19th, 2015
Clifton Benevento is pleased to present ‘Tacky Glue’, a solo exhibition of recent work by Detroit-based artist Dylan Spaysky.
Carved, whittled, glued and plumbed, Spaysky’s artworks possess a homespun temperament that might point toward the handiwork of a garage hobbyist or homemaker. Carpeted sculptures resembling cat towers are contorted to evoke figures with bad posture. Holiday decorations are compressed into wreath-like Tondo assemblages, while dish sponges are hacked into tiny cappuccinos.
Shaped by personal history, Spaysky attempts to reconcile off-the-shelf consumer product as talisman or personal artifact. He pulls material from thrift stores that trade in the excesses of comfortable suburban lifestyles, and as such, his work encourages a dual conversation about abandonment and endurance.
A new series of sculptures draw upon ‘door harps’ as their inspiration. Bending themes of domesticity with decorative impulse, his work gleefully expresses an inability to make amends with authenticity.
Dylan Spaysky (b. 1981, Waterford, MI) lives and works in Detroit, MI. Selected exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art (Cleveland, OH), Night Club (Chicago, IL), Cue Art Foundation (New York, NY), Susanne Hilberry (Detroit, MI), NGBK (Berlin), Michael Benevento (Los Angeles, CA), and Cleopatra’s (Brooklyn, NY). Spaysky is Co-Director of the Detroit artist-run space Cave, and has organized exhibitions around the area in venues such as Center Galleries and the abandoned car wash at Norwalk St. and Buffalo St. in Hamtramck.
The exhibition runs from November 7 to December 19, 2015; opening reception is 5-7pm on Saturday, November 7. The gallery is located at 515 Broadway (between Spring/Broome), New York, NY and open Tue-Sat, 11-6pm. For more information please contact Michael at 212.431.6325 or mc@cliftonbenevento.com.
Haena Chu, “Dylan Spaysky’s ‘Tacky Glue’ to display sculptures made from mundane household objects.” Columbia Spectator. November 20, 2015.
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“Dylan Spaysky – Tacky Glue.” Time Out New York. November 6, 2015.
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