Influences, obsessions and nonlinearities

Influences, obsessions and nonlinearities

UA Presentation (English) by Astrid Dick.

Born (1972) and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Astrid Dick currently lives and works in Paris. She began to paint intensively on her own at 13, and later, excited by mathematics and social frictions, begins her studies in economics in Buenos Aires, while continuing to draw in her free time. In 2002, she is awarded a Ph.D. in economics from MIT. Having led a double-life between art and economic research for many years, at age 36 she abandons her post as university professor to devote herself entirely to art.

She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, was artist-in-residence at the Leipzig Spinnerei, and has shown her work through solo and group shows in Europe, the US and Argentina, such as the Grand Palais in Paris and the Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Switzerland.

Most recently, she has shown with Erika Ranee at MDavid & Co. Gallery and at Below Grand Gallery in New York, intervened as guest artist at Johnson Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, published the zine “A True History of Stripes,” and her work was reviewed by John Yau in Hyperallergic.