Dylan Macarty has been making art since kindergarten, and it’s one of the few things in his life that has stayed with him the whole way through. He spent his childhood and most of his twenties drawing comic book characters. After his father passed away, he went looking for something new to help him heal, and found it in abstract drawing and painting. He hasn’t looked back since.
His abstract work explores energy, emotion, instinct, intuition, and the subconscious, and tries to give them a visual form. Dylan sees abstraction as a language beyond words, one that an open-minded viewer can read in countless ways. He draws on a wide range of artists from every style, background, and era, and mixes established techniques with methods of his own. The one he values most is instinct: he deliberately avoids planning or dwelling on what he’s making, so that what reaches the surface is as raw and unfiltered as possible.
Dylan believes artists evolve over time, in style and in how they express themselves, and that watching that change, in others and in yourself, is a remarkable thing. Making art has helped him through some of life’s hardest losses and keeps showing him things about himself he never expected. He plans to keep at it for as long as he’s able.
I purposefully do not think or dwell on what it is that I am creating.
Dylan Macarty
Medium & Materials
Medium: Abstract painting and drawing
Selected Works
Images of Dylan’s work and pieces available in the shop will appear here.