Post by mkennedy on Sept 5, 2009 15:59:09 GMT -8
Myron Conan Dyal
September 12, 2009 - October 3, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12th, 7-10 pm
BILLY SHIRE FINE ARTS
5790 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
phone: 323-297-0600
fax: 323-297-0601
www.billyshirefinearts.com
info@billyshirefinearts.com
Myron Conan Dyal is a modern mystic, classically trained musician, and a self-taught Southern California artist. When he was four years old he awoke from a three month long coma, which his parents believed to be caused by demon possession. At that point, he says his mind was erased, his visions began, and he had epilepsy.
Dyal has spiritual visions that are the catalysts for the vast oeuvre of his work that spans nearly three decades and includes more than 6,000 drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Dyal’s imagery is primal, dark, and folkloric. He uses papier-mâché to create life sized sculpture, because its immediacy accommodates his urgency to see his objects in three-dimensional form. His figurative and organic forms are derived from visions he experienced during epileptic seizures and self-induced trances that have aided him in dealing with his condition. Dyal’s drawings, paintings, and sculptures illustrate alternate realms filled with archetypal figures and places that have littered human consciousness for centuries. They take us through the darkest forests into the depths of their imaginations where we see tricksters, soothsayers, mystics, and guardians as we walk through Elysian Fields and trespass in the underworld. “My prolific production of art, secret for many years has only recently been available for viewing by the outside world and to this day it is unclear how my visions and epilepsy are related to one another. However, the years of pain and conflict that ensued from decades of “hiding” has taken it’s toll on me and the art that I have produced is finally allowing me to heal” states Dyal. - www.myrondyal.com
September 12, 2009 - October 3, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12th, 7-10 pm
BILLY SHIRE FINE ARTS
5790 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
phone: 323-297-0600
fax: 323-297-0601
www.billyshirefinearts.com
info@billyshirefinearts.com
Myron Conan Dyal is a modern mystic, classically trained musician, and a self-taught Southern California artist. When he was four years old he awoke from a three month long coma, which his parents believed to be caused by demon possession. At that point, he says his mind was erased, his visions began, and he had epilepsy.
Dyal has spiritual visions that are the catalysts for the vast oeuvre of his work that spans nearly three decades and includes more than 6,000 drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Dyal’s imagery is primal, dark, and folkloric. He uses papier-mâché to create life sized sculpture, because its immediacy accommodates his urgency to see his objects in three-dimensional form. His figurative and organic forms are derived from visions he experienced during epileptic seizures and self-induced trances that have aided him in dealing with his condition. Dyal’s drawings, paintings, and sculptures illustrate alternate realms filled with archetypal figures and places that have littered human consciousness for centuries. They take us through the darkest forests into the depths of their imaginations where we see tricksters, soothsayers, mystics, and guardians as we walk through Elysian Fields and trespass in the underworld. “My prolific production of art, secret for many years has only recently been available for viewing by the outside world and to this day it is unclear how my visions and epilepsy are related to one another. However, the years of pain and conflict that ensued from decades of “hiding” has taken it’s toll on me and the art that I have produced is finally allowing me to heal” states Dyal. - www.myrondyal.com