Austin Dearth

Austin has used his several years at Imagine That to find ways to express his unique and often humorous point of view. Austin’s work deals a lot with structure, patterns and vibrant color choices. His work usually revolves around robots or landscapes of places he’s been, that include a lot of abstract detail and intricate pattern work. Each line built upon the next creates undulating, shifting boundaries that create rhythmic, map-like shapes, forming organic wave patterns that feel alive. These are subconsciously informed by the places he travels and his rich day-to-day experiences in the world. Ultimately, they might be meditations, the process of mark-making itself organically unfolding in the moment. This speaks to the flow of daily life, its repetitions, its twists and turns, and often, perhaps, the folding in of accumulated memory onto our present. We are all figuring it out as we go, each mark, each decision supporting the next.

Selected Shows

2023- Process May Vary: A collection of Prints, Imagine That! Kansas City, Missouri  

2023- Peripheral Visions, Kansas City Public Library’s Central Library, Kansas City, Missouri 

2022- Song, Systems and Structures, Troost Gardens, Kansas City, Missouri  

2022- Site Three, H&R Artspace at KCAI, Kansas City, Missouri 

2022 - MO. Bank Art Boards, Art by Austin D., Kansas City, Missouri 

2021- a Little Undefined, Lodger Gallery at Agnes Arts, Kansas City Missouri 

2018- Exposure at NCECA, Bunker Projects at GBBN Architects, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia  

2016- Coming Together, Imagine That!, Kansas City, Missouri 2023- Process May Vary: A collection of Prints, Imagine That! Kansas City, Missouri  

2015 - Expressions Art Exhibition, Jones Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri