2013: Collecting Alibis L.A

At the centre of this show at Anat Ebgi’s LA gallery sat a smaller reconstruction of Amie Dicke’s Battle of Magenta, the pool the artist had made for her GEM Museum show the previous year. Partly because of its smaller scale, the new work – whose floating prints slowly release ink that mixes with the water – was especially sculptural, deep and vibrant.
The pieces titled II and III are monolithic plexiglass plates which Dicke has coated in red, blue, and black ink by blowing through the plastic inners of Bic pens. They can also be considered “de-inking” works.