statement

In this series of work I began by exploring ways to draw a line by way of subtraction rather than addition. Lines were carved out and then filled with pigment. As lines amass, the surface undergoes various treatments of measured destruction. The result becomes a map like landscape of history and reaction.

bio

born: 1977, Louisville, Kentucky

education

University of Cincinnati, MFA, 2003
University of Louisville, BFA, 2001

selected awards/honors

Best of Show, Working with Paper National Juried Exhibition, Tubac Center of the Arts, Arizona, NM 2011
Award for Excellence, All Kentucky Juried Exhibition, Capital Arts Alliance, Bowling Green, KY 2011
Second Place Prize, TAA Juried Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH 2010
Faculty Grant, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 2010

selected publications

International Drawing Annual 5 Exhibition-In-Print, Manifest, Cincinnati, OH 2010
The Courier-Journal; Our Chemistry, by Diane Heilman. Louisville, KY 2008
Leo Weekly; Sex, War and the Landscape: Our Chemistry, by Jo Anne Triplett. Louisville, KY 2008
Louisville Magazine; Best of Show, by Julie Ball Hambrick. Louisville, KY 2002

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Brent Dedas and Jim Doiron, Billy Hertz Gallery, Louisville, KY 2012
The Architecture of Destruction Solo Exhibition, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, 2010
Our Chemistry: Sex, War and the Landscape Solo Exhibition, Water Tower Gallery, Louisville, KY 2007
Brent Dedas: Drawings on Copper Solo Exhibition, Erin Devine Gallery, Louisville, KY 2002

selected group shows

State of Drawing, Anne Wright Wilson Gallery, Georgetown College, KY
Working with Paper National Juried Exhibition, Tubac Center of the Arts, Arizona, NM
14th Annual SECAC Juried Exhibition, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA
National Juried 12 x 12 Exhibition, Todd Gallery, Murfreesboro, TN