D.E. May

I suppose I have always been drawn to the non archival. The work I do may not be here forever, but it will probably see us out. In the truest moments, I don't look at the work as something I made. I see it as something that has been here all along.

I am concerned with time and temperature and tars and resins and climates. And Regions. Stains. The color of glue. Random marks of a traveled space. The role of water. Then, there are times I look down at the worktable, and I would just like to remove history.

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D.E. May
Untitled #273
ink, gouache, found papers, tape and graphite on cardboard
7 1/4" x 5" x 1 3/4"
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D.E. May
Untitled #273
ink, gouache, found papers, tape and graphite on cardboard
7 1/4" x 5" x 1 3/4"
Sold

Exhibitions

Seattle Art Fair 2025 -
Summer Group Show 2025 -
PADA Pop-Up
Summer Ritual -
D.E. May Traveling Case at Pendleton Center for the Arts -
You belong among the wildflowers -
FROM THE ARCHIVES: NOTES AND PLANS -
Walking -
The Color of Breathlessness -
D.E. MAY, MEGAN MURPHY, & JENENE NAGY -
River -
PIVOT: Drawings -
Seattle Art Fair 2019 -
Dan May: Artworks by D.E. May -
Along the Edge -
PULSE Miami Beach 2017: The Closet -
PDX -> PDT -
Dislocation -
Seattle Art Fair 2017 -
Seattle Art Fair 2016 -
A Stand of Pine in a Tilled Field: 21 Years at PDX -
PULSE Miami Beach 2015 -
NO SPECIFIC REGION -
Seattle Art Fair 2015 -
Let's Get Lost -
Miami Project 2014: Midtown Miami, Wynwood District -
Memory of Line: Grids, Templates and Miniatures -
Volta 2013 -
Pulse Miami 2011 -
The Template Files -
Black Page -
Alloys and The Role of Water -
Wood -
Mixed Company -
TESTBEDS -