Amie Dicke

Centraal Museum | Amie Dicke

"Fashion images are very dominant in the idea of beauty. And probably there is a logic or functionality behind this. But why do we keep bombarding ourselves with it? And enlarge it? That is a mystery to me and also really fascinates me." —Amie Dicke

Amie Dicke, This is Me

"The faces are the first to be gone. This is something very immediate. If I erase the face, then it gives me the ability and the space to enter the image from a different position." —Amie Dicke

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Another talented Dutch female artist, Amie Dicke is widely known for her cutting and altering of fashion magazine imagery, as captured in a new monograph of her amazing artworks, published by Walther Koenig. Making inventive use of existing photographs, she incises, sands and scratches the glossy surface of the fashion shots to make far edgier pictures. — Paul Laster

Interview with Amie Dicke

"If I had to say something about nothing I would refer to the space between words. Not long ago I got a collection of space bars. I found them in a place where they sell old typewriters and the space bars caught my attention because of their different colours and materials. Actually, the space bar may be the key we use the most in our keyboards, but what is interesting is that it says a lot more about what it is not written, about the connection of language…" —Amie Dicke

Artist Amie Dicke Shows How She Creates Space for New Femininity

Through the actions Dicke performs, "she questions the fashion image," Schavemaker believes. "By cutting, by sanding, by breaking everything away, space is created for a new image. A new femininity." —Cynthia Rood

Shadow play and white clouds – Amie Dicke at Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd

It's a beautiful, layered exhibition. The most beautiful aspect is the interaction between the artwork and the house. Oud Amelisweerd fits Dicke like a glove. The colors of the photos seamlessly blend with those of a door, a wooden floorboard, a fireplace. Sunlight stripes cut through the windows into the rooms: the bright white light lines replicate the cut-out strips of paper and aluminum. —Anna van Suchtelen

Amie Dicke at Oud Amelisweerd, Utrecht, Netherlands

Amie Dicke's solo exhibition with the Centraal Museum, Utrecht brings together a selection of works from the past 20 years. The exhibition is on view at Oud Amelisweerd, an historic country estate outside Utrecht, Netherlands through August 21.

Work by Amie Dicke in Oud Amelisweerd

This beautiful historical estate will serve as the backdrop for a solo exhibition by a renowned Dutch contemporary artist every spring and summer for five years. Artist Amie Dicke is leading the way, with her work on display from April 16 to August 21. —Utrecht Nieuws

Amie Dicke at Centraal Museum, Utrecht

In recent years Dicke has developed various techniques to manipulate images: she scrapes away parts, cuts them up or covers them with ink or make-up. In this way Dicke makes you look at an image anew. This exhibition brings together a selection of works from the past 20 years, which dialogue with the historic interior spaces of the mansion. —Mousse

Amie Dicke

"To me, it’s really about touching, marking the place where I am, it has to do with being in the Now. My work is not about history, any more than it was ever about beauty -- it’s about paying attention.” —Amie Dicke

Amie Dicke solo exhibition at Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles

By adding space where there was none, and creating work that eludes the conventions of two- and three- dimensional forms, Dicke continuously distorts and realigns the possibilities of our visual experience. “They are almost a movie in one still,” she says of these intriguing assemblages. —Kingdom of The Netherlands

Amie Dicke’s One-Liner @ Anat Ebgi in Los Angeles

“Some images ask to be folded or covered, others suggest a line. They have their language. And I try to understand how they speak to me.” —Amie Dicke

Amie Dicke: One-Liner

It is a series of horizontal image compositions made up of fragments of images Dicke sourced from books and magazines, as well as snapshots taken with her camera, which she refers to half-jokingly as the “cold eye”. Of the images, she says “the spaces between them and the spaces they depict are of equal importance.” —A Fabio

Amie Dicke: Selection and Removal

She [Dicke] is an artist who works as an appointer, referrer, indicator, a cursor and exposes that which would usually be overlooked. —Lodown

Immateriality with Amie Dicke

Whether she's cutting and altering fashion magazines or powdering vintage books with layers of make-up, Amie Dicke says her role as an artist is to "point" at the magic that's hiding in plain sight, revealing associations and resonances that might otherwise go unnoticed.  —Mark Smith

Review | 2 x Amie Dicke

Dicke's attitude becomes clear when I see the work "Worktable" (2016) in the basement, which is related to the installation "Cosed Eyes" (2016). A selection of books from her private collection lies open, but the pages have become mostly unreadable. Dicke covered them with a thick layer of foundation in various house-tone colors. The work is made on location, as becomes evident in the basement. —Lotte van Geijn

Amie Dicke: Obvious Secrets

Most people expect artists to paint, but that's the one thing Amie Dicke doesn't do. Her artistic expression is more diverse, expressed with sculpture, works on paper and research into found objects that share a common essence. —38 Hours in Amsterdam

In Review | Amie Dicke: Redundancies, Voids and Metaphors of the ‘Real’

Much of Dicke’s investigations have to do with the visual redundancies, voids and the metaphorical meanings assigned to objects, making this a fun show for the cerebral thinker, or for one who thinks there’s such a thing as “real” in relation to visual art. —Alicia Eler

Culver City Early Bird Special

In this new series of work, Dicke interrogates the language of visual culture through breaks, spaces and intervals of absence. She spoke about the way she often lays hundreds of images out on a table and arranges them until they make sense or can talk to one another. —Beverly Western

Amie Dicke’s visual poetry is about intimacy and confrontation

Dicke is best when she intervenes in what is there, then something new emerges, something tactile that slips between your fingers and your understanding. Just like with good poetry - but with Dicke it becomes poetry of the touch.—Hans den Hartog Jager

Amie Dicke: A layer of make up changes everything

Dicke opposes the uniformity of fashion photography with conscious ambiguity, in which language enters into a one-two punch with image. —Edo Dijksterhuis

I love Aby Warburg’s ideas of re-establishing pathos: an interview with Amie Dicke

"My gaze soon shifted to details. The more I looked, the more the faces disappeared into the background. In this way I discovered casual onlookers and unintentional portraits." —Amie Dicke

A pocket square by Amie Dicke, artist

For her COS magazine submission, Amie was compelled to investigate the idea of space and compression by folding a square meter of delicate sketch paper to the point where it could be carried in that most intimate of hidden spaces, the pocket. —COS Magazine

Review: Amie Dicke photographs as powerfully compromised objects

The destruction is generative, yielding works that are at once haunting apparitions, censored documents, performative, material traces. —Leah Ollman

Amie Dicke: Reimagining the world around us

“For me, the work is about the fact that our memories contain a multitude of images, but that these become faded, distorted or sometimes even completely lost over time. In that sense, our memories are the result of a battle between different images.” —Amie Dicke

The best new female-fronted shows | Amie Dicke @ Anat Ebgi

Dutch artist Amie Dicke has come a long way from the gothic magazine pages that made her name. Her current LA show explores the subtext of images with lots obscuring, obtuseness and sheer skill. —Francesca Gavin

Amie Dicke

"I once banned magazines, but found myself buying one a little later. It is like an addiction and like any addiction it is difficult to quit. The balance between fascination and frustration provides inspiration." —Amie Dicke

Amie Dicke – Afterimage

Existing objects and images gradually find their way to the studio, where the artist works on themes deeply human and individual, involving emotions like shame, fear, and aggression, as well as the collective; the history of a specific place and memories associated with it; the Afterimage. —De Groene Amsterdammer

Tender Destruction

"My work is often seen as an indictment of the fashion world, but I don't see it that way myself." —Amie Dicke

Artist Amie Dicke Inspires Prabal Gurung’s Spring Collection

Dicke is known for her collages of abstract images from fashion magazines. If you do a Google Image search for them and compare them to Gurung’s new pieces, you’ll see the influences very clearly. —Merle Ginsberg

Amie Dicke

In the installation, Dicke fills gaps in frames, tears in fabric upholstery, and holes in the ceiling with gold-colored rescue blankets. Dicke previously created an installation at this location, where she covered the furniture in one of the rooms with plastic and then removed the furniture – "Claustrophobic" (2009). What remains are the plastic covers. Like shadows, like an aura, of what once was. —Saskia Vredeveld

What Lies Beneath: Amie Dicke, Dawn Mellor and Goth Pop Art

Dicke’s cutpaper collages, which consist of photographs torn from current fashion magazines or peeled from busstops, the Dutch artist takes contemporary fashion imagery and alters it to reveal the spectres of grunge behind the polish and decay beneath the glamour. —Ana Finel Honigman

The Cutting Edge: Amie Dicke

"By taking away significant patterns, in this case, you give others the opportunity to use their own imagination. Again only the contours remain." —Amie Dicke

Sculptural Relief

"A main topic in my practice is shame. Being humiliated or embarrassed is the highest state of self-consciousness." —Amie Dicke

Interview with an Artist: Amie Dicke

"Aggression is natural. The works that I make are very personal. They from very personal feelings and ideas and they're not an attack to the fashion industry." —Amie Dicke

Holy Appearance: The Work of Amie Dicke

You could say it's a form of magic - Amie gives an existing image a new mask. With this mask,  in a roundabout way, she reveals its truth. —Monica Aerden

Amie Dicke interviewed by Anat Ebgi

"The knowledge that things will decay, fall apart, lose their shine and that their colors will fade is what makes them so beautiful, but at the same time it frustrates me. Destruction is the dark side, but at the same time it creates a place for the new." —Amie Dicke

Consuming Beauty: A Conversation with Amie Dicke

"My art has violent aspects. But that violence is infused with concentration. I am restless by nature." —Amie Dicke

Tender and Dark: Amie Dicke

"To appropriate something involves taking possession of it. When it is one of your thoughts, maybe the seed of the idea came from someone else. I like borrowed elements. I love fragments." —Amie Dicke

Surface Tension: Amie Dicke’s Décollages

In collusion and at odds with the worlds of fashion and beauty, crystallized in contemplation and dissolved in spun-sugar decadence, Dicke's work embraces the obsession with the exterior that defines contemporary Western culture. —Aimee Walleston

Dutch artist Amie Dicke addresses issues of gender and sexuality in art.

"I am fascinated by the contrast between the 'perfect beauty' as shown in magazines and on billboards and the inevitability of decline." —Amie Dicke

Amie Dicke: Dualism, Conflict, Polarity

But, like an addiction, Dicke's fascination with fashion refused to disappear. One of her latest projects involves driving nails into magazine images, a violent act that is a critique of the fashion industry, she says, but also of her own obsession with it. —Flaunt

Amie Dicke

Dicke questions whether commodity fetishization begins with the consumer or the consumed. —Hell Bound

Artists’ Models

Amie Dicke—whose work can be seen at the Von Der Hoyt Museum in Germany from April 22—uses an exact knife to remove the features from models in bus-stop posters and editorial spreads, reducing the remainder of their elegant bodies to sinewy designs as she leaves their hands, hair and pouting upper lips untouched. —Vogue

Paper Dolls: In the dark and delicate paperwork by Dutch artist Amie Dicke, even her own self portrait isn’t safe from a sharp blade

Her once docile subjects become striking, converting a model's empty gaze into a wraithlike, powerful trance. —Kate Sennert

Amie Dicke: New Season, New Girls, New Looks

Dissecting fashion's fluff, fabric, and fantasy, Dicke reveals its underlying morbidity. With an X-acto knife as her scalpel, she slices off the flesh and features of slinky models from bus-stop posters and fashion spreads. —D'Amelio Terras

Skin Deep: Amie Dicke

At once captivated and petrified by the international world of fashion, Amie Dicke's ethereal dissections reveal a beauty in the models unseen on the pages of the fashion glossies. —Nick Hackworth

Critic’s Pick: Amie Dicke

Dicke’s work lands at the intersection of collage, sculpture, feminist intervention, and fashion. Whichever path you take, its instinctual, almost primal qualities assure that it will fascinate. —Bethany Anne Pappalardo

Amie Dicke: THIS IS ME

March 2023