The Linda A. Day Endowed Student Award
Dede Falcone
2020 Linda A. Day Endowed Student Award Recipient
Dede Falcone is a painter and collage artist of 20+ years. She arrived at CSULB from Seattle where she lived for 25 years as an artist and was the founder and executive director of a small nonprofit arts organization where she helped other artists gain traction through mentoring and visibility. Currently, Dede is a second-year student in the Drawing and Painting Department at CSULB and will earn her MFA in Spring of 2021.
Wishbone, 50x38”, 2020 Mixed Media on Paper
Practical Forbearance, 108”x25”, 2020 Mixed Media on Paper
Artist Statement
My work conceptualizes and embodies experiences of transformation and impermanence, framed by a metaphorical context of time, memory and language. Over many years I've developed a process that deconstructs previous artworks in order to reconstruct them in radically different ways. This process is called “remaindering” and for me it is symbolic of my life’s journey: creation, destruction and re-creation. By reclaiming and reappointing previous works I fuel an emotional and psychological journey into my own history and patterns. In this way my artwork marks a visual reference which transcribes my connection of the past to the present.