Astrid Dick

The paintings of Astrid Dick are love letters in oil and linen borne from her head to her heart to her hands that commune with her Ghosts: the artists, poets, musicians, writers, and sports figures, creatures of myth and metaphor, who share her passion and devotion for unmitigated, uncompromised creativity and self-expression at their essence and at all costs. Working with a wide-open palette and a range of marks, patterns and affiliations, there are parallels between her process and that of the great Jazz composer Miles Davis, perhaps best expressed in his famous quote “Never play anything the same way twice.”  With little or any preconception other than her repertoire of melodies, in love with oil paint, with gestures that travel through the body, the mind, and the spirit to then become image when the moment appears, that moment of transformation where her Ghosts manifest their essence in ways she never intended but are preordained, Dick creates, through what she has come to refer to as "inhabited touch", a space and ethos for her beautiful and deeply personal architecture.

Originally from Buenos Aires, Astrid Dick (1972) is a painter based in Paris. She began to paint intensively on her own at the age of thirteen, and later, excited by mathematics and social frictions, studied economics and received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002. She was an academic until 2009 when she turned fully to her painting practice after a life as an art double-agent. 

She has attended residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and the Leipzig Spinnerei and shown her work through solo and group shows in Europe, the US and Argentina, such as the Grand Palais in Paris and the Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Switzerland.