Michael Berryhill

Living Room

Dimin's first presentation in The Living Room is new work by artist Michael Berryhill.

“Berryhill’s strengths are many, not the least of which is his pursuit of something that is not immediately nameable or easy to commodify. He further strengthens this pursuit by not settling into a style, moving between abstraction and figuration without conveying an allegiance to either. His quest, which is unlike anyone else’s, strikes me as a major and singular undertaking.”

—John Yau, Hyperallergic, 2020.

In a moment when visual literacy is slipping away due to a digital homogenization, we must remember paintings are standalone physical entities. In Dimin's first Living Room exhibition, artist Michael Berryhill implores us to become selfish participants with his paintings. He asks us to stand in front of these works constantly recalling we are looking at an artifact of human production. As humans we have the agency to embrace his colorful painterly practice or dismiss it all together. Berryhill merely asks us to consider the thingness of paintings, as ultimately, that is the point.

Michael Berryhill (b. 1972, El Paso, TX) lives and works in Ellenville, NY. He received his MFA from Columbia University in 2009. He has exhibited extensively in the United States having solo exhibitions at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; Kate Werble in New York, NY, and Derek Eller in New York, NY. Berryhill has been reviewed by John Yau in Hyperallergic, Carrie Moyer in Art in American, in Artforum, and in The Brooklyn Rail, among others. DIMIN is excited to present a solo booth by Michael Berryhill at The Armory Show this coming September.