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ABOUT

Through immersive installations that merge the formal languages of nature and technology, Molly Valentine Dierks explores evolving landscapes of intimacy, distance, and connection.

Dierks’ practice weaves together interests in ecology, technology, and social psychology, with a love of fiction, poetry, play, design, and dance. She studied Psychology at Dartmouth College (Honors, BA), Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Art/Design, architecture, gender studies, postmodernism & performance (yes! all of these :) at the University of Michigan (MFA).

Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions nationally & internationally. Select pieces & bodies of work have appeared in Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s 'Post Industrial Complex', CICA Museum’s Art Yellow Book, Designboom, Voyage Dallas, The Jealous Curator, Peripheral Visions Arts, and more. Her public and large-scale installations (Detroit, Minnesota, DFW Metroplex) use the language of signs and infrastructure to meditate on transitional states like vulnerability, evolution, and letting go.

Through residencies in Beijing, Tokyo, and Incheon, and the rural landscapes of the US, Iceland, and Finland, she has been exploring different landscapes (material, psychological, ecological), translating the poetry of her experiences through work.*

Molly Valentine Dierks is, at her heart’s core, also a healer and mentor. At the root of her work is the word ‘ecology': the divine interconnectedness of nonliving and living systems.

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OTHER WORK: *She has also taught Calculus, Pre-Calculus, & Algebra (high school), Italian (Dartmouth College), worked in two factories (one real, one simulated), as a freelance graphic designer, and as a documentary photographer with both the Uganda Rural Fund Women’s Empowerment Program & Iliso Labantu in Khayelitsha, South Africa.