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Artist Statement and Bio
Joelle Dietrick’s paintings, drawings, and animations explore contemporary nesting instincts and their manipulation by global economic systems. With a particular interest in female expatriates, she considers how these adventurous women negotiate their wanderlust with a desire for a home while in competition for boundaryless careers.
Her recent artworks and research considers housing trends that complicate relationships to place. With particular attention given to public and private space divisions, she combines digital and traditional art media to echo contemporary economic system fragmentation and its personal implications. Creating digital tools to strip data from housing websites, she uses these numbers to randomly arranged sketches of foreclosed homes, within prescribed boundaries. In further developing these results with traditional, hand-drawn media, she cultivates a meditative state and moments of chaos that complicate slick, emotionally-detached digital form and points to the unpredictability of individual actions and contextual constraints.
Dietrick's work has been shown at the TINA B Festival in Prague and Venice, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, MCA San Diego, Long March Space Beijing, ARC Gallery Chicago, Soho20 New York, and MPG Contemporary Boston. She has attended residencies at the Künstlerhaus Salzburg, Anderson Ranch, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Banff Centre for the Arts, and the School of the Visual Arts.