Alex Patrick Dyck (b. 1985, San José, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, performance, poetry, and book arts. Rooted in ecology, diasporic memory, and their Indonesian heritage, Dyck’s practice explores queer identity, care, and the transmission of story across bodies, landscapes, and time. They see art-making as a devotional act before the divine, imbued with the interlocking arms of desire and grief.
Working with plant matter, found objects, handmade paper, fiber collage, assemblage, and resin, Dyck creates sculptural and immersive works that hold what is fragile, fleeting, or at risk of disappearance. Layering, transparency, and enclosure function as both material strategies and poetic devices, allowing memory, loss, and eros to surface in palimpsestic form. Text and image frequently converge in their work, with sculpture operating as an expanded field of poetics—where language, matter, and gesture co-create meaning. Through acts of altar-building and careful accumulation, Dyck adopts a collector’s visual language as a ritual practice: they approach objects as vessels, attentive to the stories they carry and the relations they make possible.
Community and reciprocity are central to Dyck’s practice. Their ongoing study of herbalism, begun in 2018, informs both their material choices and ethical framework, emphasizing care, mutual aid, and attentiveness to the more-than-human world. This ethos extends to their exhibition and publishing work; Dyck is the founder of Pollywog Press, an artist-run print and curatorial project dedicated to amplifying the voices of BIPOC, queer, and underrepresented artists.
Dyck holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and is currently a dual MFA/MA candidate in Sculpture and Art History at Purchase College (expected 2027-2028). They have exhibited, published, and performed internationally since 2008, with work supported by the CREATE Council on the Arts Catalyst Grant, Fernland Artist Retreat (Portland, OR), Spark of Hudson Artist Fellowship, Other Places Art Fair (Los Angeles), Secret Project Robot (NYC), Galerie Manque (NYC), Espace Maurice (Montreal), Midori.So x Commune Press (Tokyo) and Basilica Hudson Artist Residency. They have self-published two books of poetry; their third collection, Butterflies Come Out at Night, was published by 1080PRESS in 2024. They spend time tending to their roots in the Bay Area of California, while living and working in New York’s Hudson Valley on occupied Munsee Lenape and Mohican land.
Photo by Jordan Benton
Working with plant matter, found objects, handmade paper, fiber collage, assemblage, and resin, Dyck creates sculptural and immersive works that hold what is fragile, fleeting, or at risk of disappearance. Layering, transparency, and enclosure function as both material strategies and poetic devices, allowing memory, loss, and eros to surface in palimpsestic form. Text and image frequently converge in their work, with sculpture operating as an expanded field of poetics—where language, matter, and gesture co-create meaning. Through acts of altar-building and careful accumulation, Dyck adopts a collector’s visual language as a ritual practice: they approach objects as vessels, attentive to the stories they carry and the relations they make possible.
Community and reciprocity are central to Dyck’s practice. Their ongoing study of herbalism, begun in 2018, informs both their material choices and ethical framework, emphasizing care, mutual aid, and attentiveness to the more-than-human world. This ethos extends to their exhibition and publishing work; Dyck is the founder of Pollywog Press, an artist-run print and curatorial project dedicated to amplifying the voices of BIPOC, queer, and underrepresented artists.
Dyck holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and is currently a dual MFA/MA candidate in Sculpture and Art History at Purchase College (expected 2027-2028). They have exhibited, published, and performed internationally since 2008, with work supported by the CREATE Council on the Arts Catalyst Grant, Fernland Artist Retreat (Portland, OR), Spark of Hudson Artist Fellowship, Other Places Art Fair (Los Angeles), Secret Project Robot (NYC), Galerie Manque (NYC), Espace Maurice (Montreal), Midori.So x Commune Press (Tokyo) and Basilica Hudson Artist Residency. They have self-published two books of poetry; their third collection, Butterflies Come Out at Night, was published by 1080PRESS in 2024. They spend time tending to their roots in the Bay Area of California, while living and working in New York’s Hudson Valley on occupied Munsee Lenape and Mohican land.
Photo by Jordan Benton