Dylan Spaysky
EXPO CHICAGO (with Good Weather)
Booth 228
April 9 - 12, 2026
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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 is one of playful wit and material ingenuity, blending 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. Honing in on these signifiers, Spaysky cleverly parodies the choices of adornment, consumption, and accumulation we make for the sake of expressing our individuality.
Spaysky’s work moves fluidly between high and low culture, and contemporary references frequently surface. Both Girls and the artist’s latest series of wall-hanging mirror works target the television series Sex and the City (1998–2004) and its group of fictional friends Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha. Spaysky elevates the iconic characters into woven, goddess-like effigies, while his skill with the materials convey humor, personality, and charm in the otherwise laconic forms.
The mirror works manipulate reflection, transparency, and light by layering analog materials. In NYC Skyline Mirror (2026), film shaped like the New York City skyline of the show’s early seasons is stencil-cut and applied to glass, as if nostalgically revisiting a pre-9/11, pre-smartphone time period prior to the ubiquity of digital surveillance. This era is now romanticized by those who experienced it first-hand, and generations too young to have been there.
Spaysky’s uneven surface and dismantled infinity mirrors distort the show’s ensemble and, through their deconstructed assemblage, strip away any illusion of a glorious past. What remains is a glimpse at the cycle of history as told through repeating trends, endless conflicts, and the architectural ruins of a crumbling empire. His resourceful approach points to the current nature of making art, using creative resilience and innovation to survive.
Dylan Spaysky (b. 1981 Pontiac, Michigan) lives and works in Detroit. He earned his BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2007. 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), Scherben (Berlin) and Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon. He has red hair. He was co-director of Cave (Detroit) from 2010 to 2016 and is owner/director at Spaysky Fine Art Gallery llc (Detroit).
Upcoming:
Israel Aten, Cay Bahnmiller, Dylan Spaysky
The Falstaff Project, El Paso
May 2026
thefalstaffproject.com
