bio

Dustin Spent the most impressionable times of his childhood on a family ranch near the Badlands of western South Dakota. The ostensibly overwhelming vast and isolated areas of this region of the Great Plains encouraged Dustin to journey inward searching for a similar vastness in the amorphous expanse of human consciousness. Contemplation, labor, discourse and emotional stillness are all reoccurring themes throughout Dustin's work.

Dustin received a B.S. from Black Hills State University Spearfish, SD in 2006, majoring in fine art and commercial art. In 2004, he studied art abroad focusing on advanced figure drawing and painting restoration and preservation in Florence, Italy under Audrey Flack and Dr. Roberta Pallucci. Dustin graduated (summa cum laude) from Washington State University Pullman, WA in 2009 with an M.F.A. majoring in painting and minoring in sculpture and digital media.

Recently, in 2009 Dustin established Gallery Gray.

Gallery Gray is an online gallery space dedicated to curating and presenting the work of emerging and established artists in a online context.