Author Archives: Chris

Photographic Mixed Media Artist

Ghost Notes Interview

An interview with Sager | Braudis Gallery‘s Director Hannah Reeves about my new series Ghost Notes that debuted in her gallery last fall was published on the gallery’s website. Thanks Hannah for your insightful questions. I treasure my long standing partnership with the gallery!

Right now I’m adding new pieces to the series and will be exhibiting them next month at the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival or you can contact Hannah at the Sauger Braudis Gallery to view their remaining pieces.

“Ghost Notes”, photograph on waxed washi paper, straight pins, photograph on rag paper

 

From the Sager | Braudis Website:

Chris Dahlquist is known for unique and painstaking preparation and presentation of her photographs, adding depth and resonance in each series by printing on specially-prepared surfaces. While at its heart her new work is landscape photography, her capture of temporary, fog- or smoke-obscured scenes, combined with physical translucency and layering of prints, speaks to mystery, stillness, and awe.

Gallery Director Hannah Reeves asks Dahlquist about her medium, method, and concept, and how viewers can approach and understand the new series currently on exhibit.

 

Reeves: How do you describe your medium? To list it as photography feels overly simple, given your unique process and combination of materials. Continue reading »

Act of Total Attention


“Beauty appears when one feels deeply. Art is an act of total attention.” –Dorothea Lange

Mile Marker 563, 16″x22″


 

Artist as Entrepreneur

Make Art Your Living

Some of you may know that I am passionate about helping artists learn the business skills they need to have sustainable art practices. It comes from a fundamental Continue reading »

New Gallery Partner

Growing

Shelly & Ben Cascio

As my studio practice continues to grow, I’m excited about new partnerships that we are forming to support that growth. One of the latest and most exciting is a new relationship with a longtime colleague, Shelly Cascio. Shelly, along with her husband Ben, have opened Kansas City’s brandonjacobs gallery in the Crossroads Arts District. They will have a selection of my work available all of the time and have already secured a nice large commission for the studio! Plus, I am looking forward to showing a new series of work with them in August!

If you are in Kansas City please stop by and meet Shelly and Ben and welcome them as the newest partners of the Dahlquist Studio family.

brandonjacobs gallery

brandonjacobs gallery
2015 Grand Blvd
KCMO  64108


The Artist’s Eyes


“To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.” —  Auguste Rodin

Mile Marker 591, 16″x22″


 

How it’s Remembered


“Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it’s remembered.” — Denis Norden

Mile Marker 237, 35″51″


 

The Real Things Haven’t Changed


“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”  ― Laura Ingalls Wilder

Mile Marker 503, 22″x34″


Please contact me if you are interested in adding a piece of artwork to your collection.

Nearly Bound to Happen


“If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Mile Marker 549, 11″x14″


If you are interested in adding this or another piece of artwork to your collection please contact me.

Circle of Compassion


“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” — Albert Einstein

Mile Marker 551, 35″x51″


Please contact me if you are interested in adding this or any other piece to your collection.

To Bring us Together


“The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power ― to remind us of what we each have to offer, and what we all have in common. To help us understand our history and imagine our future. To give us hope in the moments of struggle and to bring us together when nothing else will.” -– Michelle Obama


Merry Go Round