Synopsis
The catalog represents the first solo exhibition by self-taught Southern California-based artist Myron Conan Dyal. Primordial Images of a Modern Mystic features paintings, drawings, and sculptures from Dyal's vast oeuvre spanning nearly three decades. His imagery is overwhelmingly dark and haunting and obviously created with obsession and compulsion: he uses papier-mache to create his sculpture, in large part, because its immediacy accommodates his urgency to see his objects in three-dimensional form. His usually figurative or organic forms are derived from visions he experienced during epileptic seizures and self-induced trances he encountered on his spiritual journey to come to grips with his lifelong struggle with the epilepsy and its stigma. A classically trained musician and telecommunications executive, Dyal kept his prolific production of art secret for many years ― only showing it to family and a few close friends until recently.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Grand Central Press, Santa Ana, California [Published date: 2008]. Softcover, unpaginated (approx. 94 pp); richly illustrated throughout with color photographs and drawings; 22 x 28 cm. In very good condition. Pictorial paper covers featuring one of Dyal's vividly painted sculptures on the front cover; light bumping to edges and light overall surface rubbing and faint scratches to rear panel; binding tight; interior pages clean and unmarked. Catalog of an exhibition held at California State University, Fullerton's Grand Central Art Center, April 7-May 20, 2007. Includes essay by Mike McGee (Director, CSUF Main Art Gallery). Design and project coordination by Andrea Harris-McGee; photography by Eric Stoner and Ed Glendinning; printed by Permanent Printing Ltd., Hong Kong. Documents Myron Conan Dyal's (b. 1947) haunting and visionary sculptures, paintings, and drawings-works deeply rooted in autobiographical symbolism and his lifelong struggle with temporal-lobe epilepsy. Dyal's art blends mythic archetypes, spiritual transformation, and psychological revelation, rendered in papier-mache, clay, and paint with hallucinatory intensity. The accompanying essay situates Dyal's practice within the context of outsider and mystical art, noting his transition from secrecy to public recognition in the mid-2000s. Seller Inventory # 20251028010
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