Introduce Artist
Aimie Dukes
@aimiedukes
Aimie Dukes is a multidisciplinary visual artist and designer based in Honolulu, Hawaii. With formal training in visual arts and interior design, Dukes’ practice spans a wide range of media, including installation, sculpture, painting, printmaking, moving image, and book arts. Her work is characterized by a deep exploration of assemblage and thematic narratives, often reflecting on the interplay between inner and outer worlds and their influence on our sense of place and self.
In addition to her artistic endeavors, Dukes has a background in the contemporary art world, including experience in the visual arts department at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work has been exhibited in Hawaii, California, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota, and featured in publications such as Women’s Health and Time Out New York. Notable achievements include a commission for ImpactART, a collaboration between Impact Hub Honolulu and Hawai’i Contemporary, and winning Best in Show at the 2024 20/20 Photo Festival in Philadelphia.
Dukes’ multidisciplinary approach reflects a commitment to creating thought-provoking and resonant works that bridge diverse media and concepts, offering audiences a rich, immersive experience.
Artwork
#Souvenir
I am currently exploring the reversion of stylized 3D digital aesthetics to analog as a means of examining who is augmenting who in reality-informed generative design and how the greater role technology plays in our lives the further removed from nature we become. This in-progress body of work includes a series of altered Polaroids and canvas prints that occupy the space between captured reality and the imagined and the nostalgic within the new. Images of nature are embellished with synthetic biomorphic constellations creating hybrid objects as if souvenirs from instantly obsolete geologies in the vastness of simulated archetypes. Furthermore, the digital prints on paper inact the reduplicative process of printing photographs taken of photographs set against distorted photographic backgrounds speaking to the latent incestuous landscape of AI as it will eventually mine data that includes its own constructs effectively replicating the replicated.
