03/30/2026
Dylan Spaysky
EXPO CHICAGO (with Good Weather)
Booth 228
April 9 - 12, 2026
Good Weather and What Pipeline are excited to announce a solo presentation of new work by Detroit-based artist Dylan Spaysky for EXPO CHICAGO 2026. Spaysky’s practice blends the figurative with the found, and high art with the vernacular. In his latest work Girls (2026), basket-woven wicker is shaped into life-size portraiture, standing eye-to-eye with viewers. Bespoke details like hairstyles, clothing, and shoes are deftly rendered in twine, rattan, and dried fruit peels. Spaysky cleverly satirizes the choices of adornment, consumption, and accumulation we make for the sake of expressing our individuality.
Both Girls and the artist’s latest series of wall-hanging mirror works target the television series S*x and the City (1998–2004) and its fictional friends Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha. Spaysky elevates the iconic characters into woven, goddess-like effigies, while his skill with materials conveys their humor, personality, and charm.
The mirror works manipulate reflection, transparency, and light by layering analog materials. Film shaped like the New York City skyline is stencil-cut and applied to glass, nostalgically revisiting a pre-digital era now romanticized. But Spaysky’s dismantled infinity mirrors distort and strip away any illusion of a glorious past, leaving a glimpse at history’s cycle of repeating trends and crumbling empires.
Dylan Spaysky (b. 1981 Pontiac, Michigan) lives and works in Detroit. Solo and two-person exhibitions include The Barbershop (Detroit), TOPS (Memphis), Good Weather (North Little Rock, Chicago), What Pipeline (Detroit), CUE Art Foundation (New York), Andrew Kreps (New York), Clifton Benevento (New York), Popps Packing (Detroit), and Cleopatra’s (Brooklyn). Recent group exhibitions include KAJE (Brooklyn) and Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon. He has red hair. He is owner/director at Spaysky Fine Art Gallery llc (Detroit).
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