Fetus Meatus

2012-01-28T17:12:00.000-05:00

Here are a few of the new pieces.

Studio

2012-01-06T23:25:00.003-05:00

2k12

2012-01-05T13:01:00.002-05:00

I had moved my whole operation over to whitecu.be/user/truettdietz but they're currently in legal limbo as Whitecube in London is suing them to take the site down (laaaame). Anyways, I'll try to put some of what I've been working on up here in the coming weeks. New studio, new work, new haircut, whatever.

2011-05-05T13:26:00.000-04:00

2011-04-04T13:24:00.004-04:00

Here are some low-res shots of new work I started. Most of these aren't finished.

New Studio

2011-03-25T13:30:00.004-04:00

I recently moved into a new studio in Atlanta's fabulous West End.

2011-03-24T20:52:00.001-04:00

This is a piece I did for the cover of the forthcoming book "Zzzzzzzzzzzz" by J.A. Tyler.

Agnes Scott

2011-03-24T20:49:00.001-04:00

Come to this show tomorrow night. It's at Agnes Scott's Dalton Gallery. I got three pieces in the show.

Exit Strategy

2011-01-10T23:42:00.002-05:00

This is my installation piece for GSU's BFA exit show. It's titled, "Exit Strategy." The piece continued on the ceiling, but I don't have an image.

Arts Exchange

2010-12-19T09:31:00.002-05:00

Here's a small installation I did at Arts Exchange gallery near East Atlanta.

I owe you all an explanation

2010-12-12T23:40:00.002-05:00

I don't usually feel the need to explain my work, but several conversations lately have led me write what I feel like is a fairly succinct and accurate explanation and exploration of my work, its progenitors, and primary function.

- Artist Statement -

As a form of expression, for someone who struggles to talk clearly and concisely about ideas and inspiration, art-making serves me well. In America today, we are constantly bombarded with images and information. There is little or no reprieve from the overwhelming stream of data, consumer culture, ever-changing internet celebrities, tweets and status updates, leaked nude photos, and junk mail. This new form of existence seems to have brought about a change in the way that we perceive the world around us. There is a total lack of reverence. The sublime seems to have been lost somewhere in “the cloud.” Individual images no longer carry the weight that they once did. Digital manipulation ensures that no image can be trusted for its authenticity.
Because of this, and despite it, I attempt to make work that comes from, and reacts against the crushing weight of our new digital reality. Solemn and sardonic, my pieces tend towards the hands-on, relying on the physicality of their creation to buoy them out of the muck of their virtual counterparts. Manipulating pre-existing images allows a formality that I could not easily achieve with drawing or painting. The images exist in culture before I use them, and by changing them I simultaneously feed off of their energy, and thumb my nose at their original intent.
I find inspiration in the seemingly random associations that Google image searches produce. This is an idea that I keep coming back to. Gestalt. When disparate images are placed side by side, the brain is forced to make a connection, whether one actually exists or not. I often find myself associating images that many people don’t seem to accept as belonging together. These associations, along with the physical re-assignment of existing images via collage, combine to create a lush range of potential for interesting bodies of work. I tend to view my pieces as single ideas, visual one-liners, that, when combined in an installation, create a conversation as random and fascinating as the internet itself.

Always,

- Truett Dietz

BFA Exit Show

2010-12-09T12:29:00.002-05:00

I'm graduating from Georgia State University's Welch School of Art and Design. The exit show opening is this Friday from 5 'til 8. Come out and see my installation.

Show Friday

2010-12-02T11:04:00.004-05:00

If you can, try to make it out to the new Arts Exchange gallery. I'm in this show.

Faces

2010-11-29T12:57:00.010-05:00

These pieces are a continuation of a series that I've been working on.

New Works

2010-11-01T09:06:00.008-04:00

Here are some pieces that I made recently. They were presented as a small installation, reflecting the disparate connections between internet image searches.

Self-referential.

2010-10-05T21:59:00.004-04:00

Jeff Koons spoke at The High Museum tonight. He's certainly something else. His suit cost more than my education.

The Breakdown of Images

2010-09-29T12:34:00.007-04:00

Zines for sale

2010-09-23T11:05:00.008-04:00

My zines are now available at Young Blood Gallery. All hand made. Collage, found images, faketography, text. Small editions. $10 each.

A few pieces

2010-09-23T10:54:00.005-04:00

These are currently up in the show at Beep Beep Gallery.

Source @ Beep Beep on 9/11

2010-09-01T10:03:00.005-04:00

Come out for the opening.
Preview night Friday.

25 limited edition poster prints will be for sale. The poster is a collaboration between Mike Germon and myself.

Spirits in the Met

2010-08-09T23:54:00.003-04:00

The Ladies / St. Theresa / Wendy

2010-05-24T13:07:00.002-04:00

one collage, one etching, one painting with found image.

Stress Fracture

2010-05-14T09:59:00.001-04:00

An oldie, but a goodie.

Upgrade

2010-04-27T08:21:00.004-04:00

This is a re-imagined version of an installation I did earlier this year. This version is larger, and featured in the Dodekapus show Collective Conscious.

Go

2010-04-21T14:00:00.000-04:00

This Little Light Of Mine

2010-04-08T10:19:00.004-04:00

Here's my piece currently at Eyedrum
Photo: Mike Germon

New Works

2010-04-08T10:13:00.004-04:00

Lithography collaboration

2010-04-01T09:35:00.004-04:00

This is a collaborative piece between Caroline Worth and myself. I made the litho print and she obsessively detailed the middle with thousands of dots and circles, reconciling the unsightly line connecting the two images.

Graphic Score

2010-04-01T09:26:00.001-04:00

This piece functions visually, but also acts as a graphic score for a digital sound art class I'm taking. Elements of the piece are represented with audio using the robust sound editing program Ableton Live 8.

Exploration

2010-03-24T12:45:00.001-04:00

Finally made it out to this complex of abandoned warehouses I've driven past a million times. Here are some pictures. Hats off to Patty who guided me around, with the exception of the really dark places.

Obscura. Saturday @ Eyedrum

2010-03-16T10:31:00.000-04:00

Spring Broke 2K10 (part 4)

2010-03-16T10:14:00.006-04:00

ASU Student Show during Art Stroll in Castleberry Hill. I managed to squeeze some work in here and there. Also karaoke.

Spring Broke 2K20 (part 3)

2010-03-16T10:13:00.002-04:00

Inspiration Wall in Caroline's Room

Spring Broke 2K10 (part 2) (The Black Mage)

2010-03-16T10:09:00.003-04:00

While in prison, took part in photo shoot with mask made during Oscar ceremony.

Spring Broke 2K10 (part 1)

2010-03-16T10:03:00.006-04:00

Went to that abandoned prison farm down off Moreland.

Come!

2010-03-11T14:16:00.000-05:00

Studio

2010-02-25T09:24:00.005-05:00

Cut From The Daily News

2010-02-25T09:21:00.002-05:00

Mixed media collage with lacquer thinner transfers.

Tripych

2010-02-25T09:12:00.008-05:00

Pronto Plate Lithography (a.k.a. Paper Plate Lithography) With Cut-Outs And Collage Elements

White Snow, White Lies, White Whale, White Heat (Say Your Prayers)

2010-02-18T09:50:00.007-05:00

White Snow, White Lies, White Whale, White Heat (Say Your Prayers)
Truett Dietz
2010
Mixed Media Installation
Dimensions Variable

Nothing Gold Can Stay (Jessie Folds, 1910 - 1998)

2010-01-18T17:38:00.016-05:00

This is a piece I did for my installation class. It was inspired by my Great Grandmother, Jessie Folds, who died in 1998. It features her broach, as well as her two small cross pins. The gourd represents her affinity for gardening, growing her own vegetables, and her general love of the earth and nature. I built the shelf with recessed trenches for the Bell Jars to nest in. The butterflies weren't originally black, so I took the box apart, painted them, and repaired it. The images on each side, the tree and the x-ray, are an allusion to the mystical and scientific aspects of death. The face is a casting from a mold of my own face, while the gold ring adds cohesion to the formal elements of composition and color.

(Pictures Updated)

Eyedrum Group Show

2009-11-20T10:17:00.004-05:00

Never gon' flop. Come to this show.

New Work

2009-09-27T22:27:00.001-04:00

Come to this

2009-09-03T18:55:00.000-04:00

New Zines

2009-08-10T22:18:00.001-04:00

Untitled (Wheel of Whimsy)

2009-04-29T14:55:00.001-04:00

I made this piece in one sitting on a friday night. am pretty happy with how it turned out.

Cows

2009-04-29T10:34:00.000-04:00

These are old pictures that I shoved together on Photoshop.

A Small Installation

2009-04-13T16:34:00.002-04:00

Installed this today to see how it all looks together. Potentially to go in an Apocalypse show. All photos by Patricia Lacrete (http://thesuburbanrefugee.weebly.com)

2009-04-13T16:31:00.000-04:00

One Old, One New

2009-04-02T18:57:00.002-04:00

This is work I had in a student show recently. The one on top is a print. (Photo by Ryan, http://www.flickr.com/photos/neko43/ )

Bigbombistan

2009-02-09T10:00:00.001-05:00

2009-02-09T09:46:00.005-05:00

Both of these are slightly cropped because the scanner is just barely too small.

Im-Portent / Blasphemous Hierarchy

2009-02-09T09:40:00.000-05:00

Scenes From A Miscarriage

2009-02-09T09:33:00.000-05:00

Double Figure

2009-02-09T09:31:00.000-05:00

Obama Death Mask / The Green Machine

2009-02-09T09:29:00.000-05:00

2009-01-14T09:58:00.001-05:00

2009-01-14T09:56:00.001-05:00

The Man Inside / If You Were Only White

2009-01-12T10:05:00.002-05:00

Abduction / You Betcha / FaceBond

2009-01-12T10:03:00.003-05:00

Unique Forms Of Continuity In Death

2009-01-12T09:50:00.001-05:00

Ephemerality

2008-12-10T23:35:00.001-05:00

I installed this at school today just to see how it all looked together. I'm undecided on it and would love some feedback. Think of it as a big collage/assemblage made up of bits of my brain all spewing onto the wall.

2008-12-09T10:51:00.002-05:00

Why The Blackface?

2008-12-09T10:32:00.000-05:00

Until December 28th

2008-12-07T16:56:00.003-05:00

2008-11-19T23:39:00.002-05:00

Full Circle

2008-11-17T09:17:00.001-05:00

Sold.

2008-11-17T09:15:00.002-05:00

2008-11-03T10:30:00.001-05:00

? / Pocahontas / Torture / Trash

2008-10-27T19:07:00.000-04:00

2008-10-27T13:19:00.000-04:00

Girly Horns / The Ancients / Only By The Night / Horn Guy / Ascent / Dance Nigeria

2008-10-27T10:45:00.000-04:00

Nasty Talk / This Commune Was Made Possible In Part By The U.S. Army / Think / Lookouts / Ethnic Friends

2008-10-20T10:16:00.004-04:00

Dog Meat

2008-10-20T10:14:00.000-04:00

Xenu Is Sued By The Church Of Scientology / Out Ethics / Hubbard Wild Man / Xenuphobia

2008-10-20T09:49:00.004-04:00

Smoke If You Got Em / Russian Bear / Zombie / Cat Power / The Crusher / Pixel Knight

2008-10-15T09:48:00.009-04:00

Pixel Knight - Sold.

Foreign Policy (Take That You Arab!)

2008-10-15T09:43:00.001-04:00

Gangland Dolls / Desert Songs

2008-10-15T09:38:00.002-04:00

Untitled / The Radiant Child / Mandatory Voluntary / Planet Of The Apes / Pretty Mouth / German Engineering

2008-10-15T09:30:00.004-04:00

Mechanical Bird / American Dog / Untitled / Fear No Evil / SSDD / Potent / Mina Harker / Wheelchair Leonard Maltin / Henry The Bull / Fresh Blood

2008-10-15T09:20:00.011-04:00

Untitled / Untitled / Bear Chief

2008-10-15T09:10:00.004-04:00

Blood Storm / Wolf Detectives / Grisly Plan / Grassy Knoll Theory / The Torch Is Passed / Prost(r)ate

2008-10-14T14:24:00.003-04:00

Untitled / Twisted Face / Guilty / Thus Spake The Computer

2008-10-13T14:08:00.001-04:00

Wolf Cult / Bound For Glory / Small Portrait Of A Woman / HeartFight / Limping Batman / Ashram

2008-10-13T14:04:00.002-04:00

Fully Functional / American Arabs / Untitled

2008-10-13T10:37:00.004-04:00

American Self Portrait

2008-10-13T10:21:00.000-04:00

Lizard Bowl / Be Curious / Boring White Girls / GAP / Little In Common

2008-10-13T10:15:00.003-04:00

Weird Weird / Marriage / Feeble / Monumental / Satan

2008-10-13T10:08:00.003-04:00

Triangle / Future Wolf

2008-10-13T09:09:00.002-04:00

Self-Titled

2008-10-08T10:39:00.003-04:00

I Love these two for some reason.

Black Magic

2008-10-08T10:38:00.000-04:00

Cycle Thoughts

2008-10-08T10:23:00.001-04:00

Little Things / Kookaburra / Blackfellows / Dog Of Islam

2008-10-08T10:21:00.000-04:00

Pwnzord Rodeo / Stranger Beauty / Minaret Viper / White Pillars / BoysGirls / Lost Cops

2008-10-08T10:11:00.002-04:00

Cop Shower / Al Qaida / Black And White

2008-10-08T09:49:00.003-04:00

Defense Contract

2008-10-08T09:48:00.001-04:00

Butterflies

2008-10-08T09:40:00.001-04:00

Mr. Asthma Baby / King Uhuru

2008-10-08T09:35:00.000-04:00

A Bird In The Hand / Nixon Chopped And Screwed / Faces / Helping Hands / Goldenrod

2008-10-08T09:32:00.003-04:00

2008-10-07T13:42:00.000-04:00