Dawn Nye
I grew up in the Midwestern United States, received my undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri at St. Louis and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. I began my practice as a Printmaker, but over the last 9 years I have transitioned entirely to digital media. I currently teach at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Using the mundane, the exotic, the tragic and the humorous as interchangeable parts, the narratives in my work deal with desires that are often nullified by their own contemplation. This structure allows the focus to turn to the human complexities that lie between those two impulses.


Dawn Nye and Kate Randall
Dawn Nye and Kate Randall have been collaborating on short video and animation since 2002. Central to their work is an investigation of the historical and contemporary essence of desire, from a sociological cultural perspective as well as a personal one. As artists, consumers and individuals they question their craft, their culture and their own appetency and aspirations. They investigate the power and dissemination of imagery, the construction of image and themselves as image-makers. They weigh questions of aesthetics against the contemporary definitive characteristics of beauty. Their materials span an array of sculptural and painterly props to a variety of technical tools and engage dialogues intrinsic to photography, cinema, painting, sculpture, print, and animation. Their combined travel and living experiences span the continent as well as the globe, and they share a collaborative interest in the investigation of current social and cultural oddities and contradictions in view of a new world economy.