"Helping Hands/Glass Beads Trapunto Study no. 1" (2019), Silk, batting, thread, glass beads, gauze. Approx. 6" x 6" unframed, 10" x 10" shadowboxed.

Detail of "100-pound Weighted Blanket / Blanket for 1000-pounds of Problems," (2019). Silk, batting, 100 pounds of glass beads, thread. Approx. 48" x 58" when flat.

"100-pound Weighted Blanket / Blanket for 1000-pounds of Problems" (2019) and "Puffy-Coat Lumbar Pillow," (2019), on exhibition at The Vestibule, Seattle WA.

Detail of "100-pound Weighted Blanket / Blanket for 1000-pounds of Problems," (2019). Silk, batting, thread, 100-pounds of glass beads, Approx. 48" x 58" when flat

"Grotesque Face Pillow/Self Portrait," (2019), A blind continuous line drawing featuring my dermatologically inflamed face free motion quilted on silk. Approx 17" x 17" x 5"

Free-motion quilting detail of, "Grotesque Face Pillow/Self Portrait" (2019). Silk, poly thread, batting, with a down pillow inside. 17" x 17" x 5"

Detail of "Luxury Dog Bed/Weighted Blanket Prototype no. 4," (2019), Silk, cotton batting, glass beads, poly thread, zipper, stuffing. Approx. 41" x 31" x 6"

"Giant Ice-Pack-Looking Quilt/Weighted Blanket Prototype no. 3," (2019). Satin, poly batting, glass beads, poly thread. 52" x 37"

"Weighted Blanket Prototype no. 2," (2019). Silk, glass beads, cotton batting, cotton gauze. Panel measures 17" x 11"

A #camperheretonight tent installed on a Sellwood-area floating home during the 2019 Christmas boat lights show as a reminder not everyone has a home for the holidays.

"Steel Wool Blanket and Pillow Prototype," (2018) made of inherited black silk and grade 00 steel wool. Prototype made to fit my childhood self doll.

Three of the #CampHereTonight tarp quilt tents at Archer Gallery in the "You Say: Radical! You Say: Feminist!" group show in September-November 2018

"Fuck This Shit" (2016-2018) weaving made of reclaimed sweater binding, woven during every PMS event during the first two years of 45's presidency. Approx. 51" x 28"

Tarp quilt tents for #CampHereTonight at The Littman at Portland State University in October 2016

One of the #CampHereTonight hand cut tarp quilt signs designed to show solidarity with our houseless friends and neighbors against anti-camping city policy

Youth assistants from the Ellington Apartments, my low-income housing complex, with 1/2 of the 200 fruits of our campaign sign making labor

For Chloe Eudaly's grassroots campaign for a seat on Portland City Council I made 200 limited edition hand cut tarp quilt yard signs.

Temporary outside installation view of "Your Voice Heard" tarp quilt yard signs

The front (left) and back (right) sides of the Caldera quilt made in collaboration with youth artists and fellow residents. Approx. 65" x 67"

Dog butt and several Quilts for Cost Burdened Renters (QFCBRs). Tarp, poly thread, cotton batting. Approx. 13" x 13" float mounted in 20" x 20" frames.

A 1,000-pound bathtub I made out of soap. (2013).

"Privacy Fence," a flag I made out of hundreds of spray-painted cups stuck in a fence. (2013)

"Core Samples / Sand Containment Devices," sand in glass pipes with handmade wood plugs (2013).

"Mount Gum and Cat," a mountain of algae sourced from the great lakes in the skirt of my dress over the course of a day.

Installing copper leaf for, "Frantic Efforts to Avoid Real or Imagined Abandonment," (2013).

Analog slide of one of my mother's lovers and me as a child from, "Frantic Efforts to Avoid Real or Imagined Abandonment" (2013).

The last names of everyone I've ever had a crush on from preschool to present in "Frantic Efforts to Avoid Real or Imagined Abandonment" (2013)

"Study of a Busy Room," India Ink commission for Cheryl Fish (2012).

The blank slates before our painting factory opened at the beginning of "Production & Reproduction" (2012)

One piece from "The Bedroom Series" (2012)

My "Childhood Self Doll," which was created over several months of art therapy sessions with Joanna Miller-Vogl (2011)

"Horsehair Dress," made with horsehair and cat gut (2011)

"Colonial Interior," my favorite large-scale India Ink piece (2010).

Detail of a pin-poke piece I did of the rumpled bedding where my mom was found dead (2011)

Process image of my performance-based piece, "Sorting Things Out," wherein I shredded all my childhood photos and sorted out the pieces by color (2012)

A piece from an unfinished series called "Ashes to Ashes" wherein I burnt important documents I'd been hoarding and painted with them (2011)

"Great Expectations / A Grand Entrance," about some crazy bad stuff that happened at an abandoned insane asylum in La Grande (2008)

"Rhinestone Towel," a funny piece with my mothers earrings on a crappy old jail-burg towel, (2012)

Ross Farrier pointing to something in a self-portrait of me as a kid at this wiccan "witch camp" my mom took me to against my will (2010).

Detail of shredded childhood photos from "Sorting Things Out" (2012).

I built a 1/2-sized model of my childhood home for this huge installation called "1751 Easy Street: For Sale by Owner," (2011)

Detail of a pin-poke drawing of my childhood living room after we cleared it of my mother's floor-to-ceiling hoard (2012).

Me performing "I Know You Are, But What Am I," a participatory project where I wrote horrible things with sand on double-sided tape (2011).

"Plantation Livingroom," which is my unknown-to-me father's mother's living room. Just notices the table only has two legs! (2010)

Pin-poke portraits of a bunch of girls I was paranoid my then-boyfriend was interested in (2011)

"Mount Gum" was a person-tall mountain I made of Algae to represent just how much a pile of poop I felt like on the inside (2011)

"Pioneer Graveyard," the piece I started working on the morning of the day I later found out my mom was dead. Don't usually paint graveyards, kinda weird. (2010)

"Cooked Book," is an old diary I put in the oven to see what would happen (2012).

A credenza I designed and the painting that started me painting again after 10 years (2008).

"Guardrail," a liquid graphite piece about a dam I almost threw myself over as a suicidal child (2009)

Some nutty sculpture that was supposed to be about alcoholism, but kinda failed (2012)

A materials study of sand and glue (2011)

"We Sometimes Turn These Out At Night," a charcoal on vellum layered piece about how when I'm feeling crazy streetlights start going off all around me (2010)

Video still from, "Sticks and Stones," a piece where I read all the worst things I'd ever heard about myself (2010).

"Girabaldi," is Bingo ink on wrapping paper and it's about an ectopic pregnancy that almost killed me and did kill my relationship (2008)

"Neon Duct-Tape Rope Chain," is pretty much what it sounds like except it looks ceramic in real life and makes a great dog toy (2011)

Installation view of "I Know You Are But What Am I?" (2011)

"Diving Platform," a two-layered vellum and walnut ink piece about my great grandparents house in Elmira (2010)

Installation image of "I Knew You Pt. 1: Dear James," where I hung 20+ years of my mother's letters to her lover as he was in and out of prison for drug charges (2010)

"Law and Order Keeps me Sober," a painting I assume must be about that time my grandparents called the cops because I was being touched (2009)

"Flip and Focus," an installation of all my old press notebooks hung out to dry (2002)

"Iowa, Revisited," a painting about letting go of love (2009)

Wynde Dyer (1980) is a process-based artist whose work is concerned with representations and transformations of physical and psychological space. Whether working in the realm of painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, fiber arts, or community-engaged social practice, Dyer's diverse practice acts as a form of self-guided exposure therapy to overcome trauma-rooted aversions to emotionally-charged materials and memories. Dyer has exhibited and lectured widely across the Pacific NW, and has been the recipient of numerous grants and residency opportunities. For additional information please contact wyndedyer@gmail.com.