Dylan Roworth Canadian, b. 1990
I know I am only human if I cry, 2025
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 40.6 cm
Verso
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Dylan Anthony Roworth (b. 1990, St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Toronto-based artist known for his evocative oil paintings that intertwine personal narrative with the mythos of the American West. A...
Dylan Anthony Roworth (b. 1990, St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Toronto-based artist known for his evocative oil paintings that intertwine personal narrative with the mythos of the American West. A graduate of Sheridan College, where he earned a Visual Creative Arts Diploma, and OCAD University with a BFA in Drawing and Painting, Roworth's work deeply explores themes of loneliness, searching, and romanticism, using the figure of the cowboy as a central protagonist.
Roworth's artistic journey is shaped by his upbringing as the son of a single truck-driving father and inspired by the West, along with a quest to understand an absent native american mother from California. This duality fuels his exploration of the idealized West—a landscape rich with nostalgia and complexity. The Greek god Dionysus serves as a significant source of inspiration, reflecting Roworth’s fascination with themes of loss and rebirth. Like the motherless god, his cowboy character navigates a path of creative destruction, shedding old identities to emerge anew.
Roworth's artistic journey is shaped by his upbringing as the son of a single truck-driving father and inspired by the West, along with a quest to understand an absent native american mother from California. This duality fuels his exploration of the idealized West—a landscape rich with nostalgia and complexity. The Greek god Dionysus serves as a significant source of inspiration, reflecting Roworth’s fascination with themes of loss and rebirth. Like the motherless god, his cowboy character navigates a path of creative destruction, shedding old identities to emerge anew.
