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Chicago based artist/designer. Illustration, typography, design
SAIC
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We want to wish a HUGE CONGRATS to our instructor Dylan (@_dy_mac_ ) on graduating from SAIC! They hosted the sweetest grad party with us featuring their own whimsical rat painting — insired by their comic illustrations in Rat Mag! 🐀 🎉
(@_dy_rat_ to see some of their delightful rat creations 👀)

#privateevent #chicagosipandpaint #congratulations #artistspotlight

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Opening soon! Holy Craft, a pop-up exhibition by the undergraduate advanced fiber cohort. Open to the public!

🗓️May 6th - 7th
🕰️9 am - 6pm
📍Sharp 903

Closing reception with food and drink:
May 7, 11:15 am - 1:15 pm

poster design by @_dy_rat_

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Hello all, we would like to officially introduce Dylan, our newest instructor on our team! They've already proved to be an amazing and talented instructor, and we're so excited to have them at Chicago Sip and Paint! Come check them out in action at our studio 🎨
Dylan recently graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a degree in graphic design and studio art. They love all kinds of visual art, image making, and story telling. Dylan is an illustrator, cartoonist, and designer who loves to draw animals, buildings, and portraits, as well as design print and digital work for promotion and branding. When painting they usually reach for watercolors and gouache paint but they also love the boldness of acrylic paint. Dylan has a small press where they create and publish comics about rats in Chicago. They also love to crochet, embroider and create collages.

SWIPE to see more artist highlights of Dylan, and examples of their work!
Comics page: @_dy_rat_
Personal page: @_dy_mac_

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“If You’re Dissecting it,
it’s Already Dead”
Caxton Club Grant Winner
This letterpress artist book references how anxiety affects the physical body and how the urge to tear apart every detail of an event kills the natural feeling it provokes. This is similar to dissecting an animal to learn more about it, yes more information is gained, but the life force has left the animal and how it naturally exists can no longer be observed. While experiencing the book, the reader dissects the rat and explores the words that are pressed into each part of its body. The order is not obvious and may have to be dissected or decoded as well. The rat is dirty, and ugly, but also a peaceful mammal that lives alongside us in the city. The rat as a symbol for anxiety relies on us to survive, but to us, it’s a pest that we spend lots of time trying to shut out.

The poem reads:
Whenever I peel back the skin
And crack open the ribs
There is no life inside the heart
I’ve withered my intuition
To soothe the brain inside my skull
Just look!
Just feel!
Swallow your pride
Trust your gut
Purge negativity
Overthinking and over analyzing separates the body from the mind

Printed with a Vandercook Universal 1 on hand-dyed artist paper in Goudy old style 8pt

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First belt buckle 🤯😛😛😛✨✨
Happy Birthday DY 🌀

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@art.with.dylan Thank you so much for this beautiful artwork! So talented! ❤️❤️

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The best birthday present ever! @_dy_dy_dy_dy_ your talent never ceases to amaze me ❤️❤️❤️

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Chicago water tower
16 x 20
Vine charcoal, sumi ink, micron, oil pastel
Summer 2024
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#ink #inkdrawing #architecture #architecturedrawing #gothic #blackink #inked #oil #pastel

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