Kim Dickey's current work explores the interrelation of a number of seeming paradoxes, woven together in a series of “knots.” How is a notion of a utopia predicated upon that of a dystopia? How is it that we have nostalgia for places we have never visited? Such questions have prompted Dickey's recent constructions of artificial gardens in clay. In its materiality clay embodies a reference to the earth, while it acquires the status of cultural artifact through the process of firing. It thus straddles the seeming opposition between nature and culture, analogous to the logic of the garden.

Kim Dickey received a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics, in 1988, from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In addition to RULE Gallery, Dickey has exhibited work in prominent museums and galleries across the United States, including, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, and Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL.