Deanna Dikeman
Artist Statement
During the lockdown I started going for daily walks with my dog and my camera. I gave myself permission to photograph anything that caught my eye. The surreal state of the world crept into the photographs in little ways. A tattered bulletin board in the middle of a university semester or a Christmas tree in April. Some of the images relate to my state of mind, like the dog tied up and seemingly imprisoned by forsythia or the playground roped off. But along with the oddities, there was the beauty of spring and the hope for unrestrained growth.
Artist Bio
Deanna Dikeman was born in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1954, and currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. She has been an artist-photographer since 1985 when she left a corporate job. She received the Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship in 1996, and the United States Artists Booth Fellowship in 2008. Her “Relative Moments” photographs of her parents in Iowa were exhibited at Blue Sky Gallery in 2001. The New Yorker recently featured her work in “A Photographer’s Parents Wave Farewell” on March 4, 2020 in the online Photo Booth.
Pricing
17”x22”, inkjet print, $600 each
