Selected Works by Dennis Dykema

"My paintings are about my response to the landscape.  I am fascinated by the intersection between formal and dynamic elements as I find them in the environments.  My interpretations of these range from the expressive to fairly representational examinations of the landscape subject."

L: Keeping Watch Over the Prairie R: History of Agriculture: New Crop	Distant Farmstead
Landscape and Fencerow	L: Glacier Stream Middle: Waiting for Full Light R: Wooded Gully

Dennis L. Dykema was born in Worthington, Minnesota.  He studied art at Morningside College, and the university of Northern Iowa where he earned a Master's Degree in painting in 1970.  After Teaching in the Charles City and Spencer school systems, he was appointed to the art faculty at Buena Vista University in 1970, serving there until his retirement in 2001.

Contour Crop	3 Trees in Backlight
Highway 71 Valley	Reflection on a Stream

During his tenure at Buena Vista, Dykema maintained a steady production of art.  His paintings have been exhibited extensively throughout Iowa, and in 1989 a group of his paintings toured Poland at the invitation of the Central Bureau of Artists Exhibitions.  In 1993 his work was represented in the Fragile Giants, a touring show that focused attention on Iowa's Loess Hills.  Dykema's work from that show was eventually shown in such far reaching places as Washington D.C. and the US Embassy in Swaziland, Africa.

R: A Tree Left Standing Middle: Light Through the Trees Contour Crop and Late Sun

Contour Crop and Late Sun