Peacock

By Dewey Blocksma

Created 2019

Material: Mixed Media

Approximate dimensions and weight: 6’h x 6’ h x 2 ’d | 400 pounds

$2,400

Blocksma is a Michigan artist who earned a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Wheaton College in Illinois, and who worked as an emergency room physician for ten years after graduating from Northwestern University Medical School. He is now an artist full-time. At a glance, Dewey’s work is whimsical and witty. His sculptures are an extension of his toy-making experiences developed in childhood while living on the border of India and Pakistan where conventional children’s toys were unavailable. Dewey’s art also has a profound level. The concept of beauty is prevalent in his work. He challenges the notion of classical beauty by intentionally making his forms imperfect. His paintings are moments out of his life, vignettes collected, nuances captured. “I use painting as a way to figure out what I’m trying to say, not as a way to explain what I’m thinking.”