Chris Dykstra

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Drawings

Becoming, 2016, 20"x24.5" , oil pastel, magic marker, colored pencil, charcoal on paper

Morning after, 2016, 12"x9" , oil pastel, magic marker, colored pencil, charcoal on paper

Man With Violent Wake, 2016, 24.5"x20" , oil pastel, magic marker, colored pencil, charcoal on paper

Four Boys, 2016, 24.5"x20" , oil pastel on paper

Witness to a Vulgar Spectacle / A Vulgar Spectacle

Side 1: Witness to a Vulgar Spectacle, 2016, 24.5"x20" , oil pastel on paper

Witness to a Vulgar Spectacle / A Vulgar Spectacle

Side 2: A Vulgar Spectacle, 2016, 24.5"x20" marker, colored pencil, oil pastel on paper NOTE: Always place this side against the wall.

Paparazzi, 2016, 24.5"x20" , oil pastel, magic marker, colored pencil, charcoal on paper

If only disappointment was the only consequence

2014, 9” x 11”
ballpoint pen, colored pencil, crayon, pastel on paper

Closing

2011, 11” x 14”
Pen and ink, marker on paper

A Bird of Hope Delivers My Heart

2014, 8.5” 10”
Ballpoint pen, colored pencil on paper

Dog Brings Rainbows

11” x 11” Marker, pen and ink, colored pencil on paper

Either Way Looks Good

2009, 11” x 14”, pen and ink, marker on paper

Is your eye a cloud, your mouth a river?

2011, 11” x 14”, Marker and ballpoint pen on paper.

Dan at Night

1996, 20"x20", marker, pastel on paper

Anarchy of the Animals

1993, 8"x11" sketch for painting

Flowers in my eyes

2009, 8” x 11”,
Marker, colored pencil, ballpoint pen on paper

Learning to Fly

2013, 8” x 11”,
Colored pencil, marker, ballpoint pen on paper

The soul is delicate math

2009, 8” x 11”, ballpoint pen on paper

I predict storms ahead

11” x 14” Marker on paper

Suit Made of Sky

2009, 9"x11", Colored pencil on paper

Underwater Vision

2009, 8” x 11”,
Marker on paper

The Question at Hand

11” x 14”, marker, ballpoint pen, colored pencil on paper

Interactive Interactive

2007, 4.5"x8" pen on graph paper

The artist as a pumpkin

1987, red pen on paper

Paco

1985, 13.5" x 22", Pastel on paper bag

Lisa

1985, 13.5" x 22", Pastel on paper bag

Lowell’s Heart Attack

1990, 8.5"x11", marker on paper

New York Michelle Takes No Shit

1995, 30"X24", pastel on paper

Napkin drawing

1989, red pen on paper napkin

Poemhat (Man with poem around the edge of his head)

1985, 18"x20", ballpoint pen, marker

Poem:

Many Absurdities,war among them!
Love, Death too, act upon us absurdly.
And on each of these sometimes pleasurable,
Sometimes painful things I am loath to comment.
For loving is a passing of elements from one to another, and Yes! Death is a passing of elements from maybe you to me or me to you and yet I cannot help but perceive these things as absurd.

Is not war a combination of these passions? Are we not subject to them as we kill one another? There is no consistency in this world. It is absurd.

Love, Death, War: Do not collapse upon them for meaning.

You will not find it.

Bone Woman

  1. 8.5"x11"crayon, ballpoint pen, marker on paper

Sketch for Passion Fever

8.5"x11", pencil on paper

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