Tangle
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, 2022-23
“Tangle” consisted of 21 gouache paintings on paper selected from a set of approximately 200 works that date back to 2008. It also included a large-scale wall painting made directly on the wall during the course of the exhibition. It used the same parameters that shape the works on paper.
Spontaneity, immediacy, and stepping away from analytical thinking are the essential ingredients for this work. Walking also inspired paintings, though the paintings did not literally depict a walk using mapping or image making, rather they seemed to be an extension of the walk itself. My walking drawing/paintings merge the memory of a walk taken, together with the drawn line that meanders on the field of the page echoing Paul Klee’s famous quote, stating that drawing is taking a line for walk. The attempt to be in the present moment, even as it keeps slipping away, shapes and welcomes unplanned painting processes and results.
Installation View 1
Installation View 2
Southern Alberta Art Gallery: DAGMAR DAHLE | TANGLE
Southern Alberta Art Gallery: DAGMAR DAHLE | TANGLE
Southern Alberta Art Gallery: DAGMAR DAHLE | TANGLE
Southern Alberta Art Gallery: DAGMAR DAHLE | TANGLE
Southern Alberta Art Gallery: DAGMAR DAHLE | TANGLE
Southern Alberta Art Gallery: DAGMAR DAHLE | TANGLE
Southern Alberta Art Gallery: DAGMAR DAHLE | TANGLE
Southern Alberta Art Gallery: DAGMAR DAHLE | TANGLE
Southern Alberta Art Gallery: DAGMAR DAHLE | TANGLE
Southern Alberta Art Gallery: DAGMAR DAHLE | TANGLE
Yayoi 2 2012
Touch 2015
Lethbridge Summer Walk 2010
Structure Dance Place 2013
Intense Tangle Place 2018
Gushul no. 2 (maze) 2019
Starting Place 2022
Grid Tangle 2022
Untitled 2016 (red grid black dots)
Blue Grid 2022
Tangle Stop 2010 + 2022
Green Paris Walk 2008
Beautiful Black 2020
Svalbard Glacier
Broken Open 2022
Mazatlan Christmas 2016-17
Berlin Walk 2008
Beauty (V.2) 2008
Beauty (V.1) 2008
Wall painting developed on site during the 6-week exhibition
Completed Wall Painting
Completed Wall Painting – detail
Competed Wall Painting – detail 3
Completed Wall Painting-detail 2
In progress wall painting 1
In progress wall painting 2
