DYLAN CRITHCFIELD-SALES

Dylan Critchfield-Sales was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  In 2008 he earned his BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and in 2011 his MFA in Painting from the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University. Postgraduate studies with renowned Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum.

ARTIST’S REMARKS

“Distilling the act of painting to the highly responsive one-shot painting has always been greatly appealing to me. This limited and tonal approach facilitates an immediate reaction and results in a great freshness and clarity of vision.

As a musician I have become accustomed to processes of layering tightly wound repetition with patterns of more spacious intervals. My painting process parallels that of the music in that the paintings are created in alternating passes of linear drawing and flatly blocked in color or tone, which come together to create form and light.

An important commonality I see between music and painting is the power to convey a mood or emotion. Many of my works have a dark and heavy atmosphere, which is similar to that of certain music I am drawn to.

The larger paintings are intended to reveal my personal experiences and to give the viewer a sense of having been there. The collages and smaller works from music videos embody the sordid aspects of the psyche, which often find expression in subtle, almost imperceptible ways.”