A Professor of Art at a small university in Mississippi, Shawn Dickey instructs printmaking across mediums including screenprinting, Intaglio, Lithography, and Relief. While teaching nine months of the year, Shawn creates demo prints in each medium and hand-screenprints his student’s sketchbooks every semester. His summers are entirely devoted to creating his dimensional screenprints and exploring photographic based works.
Shawn’s focus on physical and digital collage works involves the fundamental process of both synthesis and juxtaposition. He comments; “Synthesis, a fusion of ideas, and juxtaposition, arranging two or more elements to form a visual relationship, provide fertile ground for viewers to make comparisons and contrasts within the compositional structure of my artwork.”
Shawn’s dimensional works are abundant with the influence of the “rock stars” of printmaking history and social issues, as well as imagery from motion pictures, how-to-books, old encyclopaedias, comic books, and vintage ephemera. The structure and display of these collaged artworks look to early Christian altarpieces, presenting the influences and passions of his own life and ideology.
For his dimension works, Shawn employs the use of sign shop board, Sintra (in both black and white), along with the X-Carve CNC system to cut each shape. He then uses solid PVC plastic rods as posts for the Sintra to be mounted on. He designs and constructs all of his own frames, which range from intricately detailed, to more plain wooden borders.
Shawn has exhibited work in over 120 national juried exhibitions and has had 3 solo shows. His prints are currently held in 12 regional/national collections and he’s won 13 awards and purchase prizes. Today, Shawn maintains membership in The Boston Printmakers, Southern Graphics Printmaking Society, Mid-American Printmaking Council, and the Los Angeles Printmakers Society.
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