MCA Denver commissioned Dickey to create work for the MCA Cafe in response to landscape architect Karla Dakin’s rooftop garden. Dickey’s interior installation, Museum as Theater as Garden, is a collection of ceramic plants that bring the garden into the café. Inspired by the 360-degree horizon, Dickey’s low dense mounds hug the ground plane. The props point the viewer toward the garden creating a dialogue between exterior and interior environments to heighten the drama of the theater Dickey imagines.
Kim Dickey was born in 1964 in White Plains, NY. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence and her MFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, New York. She lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.