D. L. Wye

D. L. Wye

Baltimore, MD

 

Art helps me to love myself. It separates me from everybody else and gives me my own sphere to develop and grow and fill. Art makes me smile, and is a formal structure to order my mind around.”

D.L. Wye (he/him/his) was born in Baltimore, MD, raised in Annapolis, then moved to New York City to attend the Photography Program at Parsons: The New School for Design, earning The Departmental Scholarship, before  graduating in 2016 with a BFA in Photography. D.L. returned to Baltimore where he continues his artmaking career in abstract photography and painting.
  
Photography was D.L.’s first artistic medium. In high school he used it to access the greater world outside of classrooms and home. D.L. traveled far and wide in his home town learning to understand light, form, tonality, and texture. Making work with what he eventually understood to be an empathetic eye, became a new means to communicate. “I was able to easily express myself through what I saw and what I thought about it. This was a fantastic personal development and launched me on a lifetime pursuit of knowledge and truth.

Diagnosed with a mental health disorder whilst studying at Parsons, D.L. now recognizes his disability comes with areas of heightened abilities, including spatial reasoning, which creates an exceptional starting point for the process and style of his photographic art making. “I spend a great deal of time preparing my subjects in a range of artistic mediums to be photographed. I primarily use large format 4”x5” film with a view camera for capture, then scan that film for digital output; however, I am fluent across all cameras, digital and film.” 

D.L.’s style could be described as conceptually abstract. “In my work I often employ tropes found in photography and the plastic arts. Some of these are: light and dark (or, black and white), opacity and the opaque, the rigidity and flexibility of the frame itself, visual trickery, or process based slight of hand.”

Excelling at problem solving,  D.L. finds that the creative solutions are often the most logical solutions. Finding value in “thinking openly and freely within my own mind” D.L. enjoys “using my instincts to determine what I find conceptually appealing, to forge a path forward when making artistic decisions.”

Through his approach both logical and observant, for D.L. artmaking is many important things: it is a catalyst for exploring the world, a compulsion to understand and make sense of the world and himself. “My art is a proxy for my existence.

I believe it is through the humble pursuit of great things that the soul is formed. I hope I have earned the right to bear a soul through my determination and quest for personal understanding, and my many years languishing in remote artistic obscurity. Now, joining ArtLifting, I share a moment of human elevation that states: It was not all in vain.”

 
Anybody Feel That Bump? - ArtLifting
 
Continuum I - ArtLifting
 
Continuum II - ArtLifting
 
Continuum IV - ArtLifting
 
Easier Statement Than Done - ArtLifting
 
Et Fono - ArtLifting
 
Flubba Dubba - ArtLifting
 
Hearty Laugh - ArtLifting
 
It Ticks as it Cools - ArtLifting
 
Perfect Punctum - ArtLifting
 
Please I - ArtLifting
 
Please II - ArtLifting
 
Pure Light, in a Juicer - ArtLifting
 
Screw Drawer - ArtLifting
 
You're Going to Be Into This - ArtLifting
 
Your Name Drawn in Circles - ArtLifting