Cleveland Dean's Page

First Name

Cleveland Dean

Last Name

the next one

Sex

Male

Age

25-34

Which of the following best describe you?

Painter, Sculptor, Other

What city are you in?

Chicago

What Country?

USA

How often are you the first among your friends to try something new?

Very often

What do you want people to know most about you?

Here hopefully to make some likeminded friends in the field as well as see if collectively we can make moves in this day and age of art.

My work is that which bridges the unconscious and conscious painted in depictions abstracted from my psyche. This can only be done by stepping outside my self-sanctuary and embracing that which exists deep within my soul. Many times when I paint I black out, go into a trance and awake to realize I have just given birth to expression. I do not know the individual within me who paints. My physical frame is simply its vessel to dissertate my mentality in form. I wish not to know this entity. I do not wish for my physical existence to influence this metaphysical being. I allow it to create movement within a still depiction, letting my soul dance on canvas.

I wish to bring consciousness back. We are programed now to exist without thought. Everything in society is brought about in such simplistic terms that reflection is a thing of the past. I work to re-institute self evaluation.

Past exhibitions:
2005 Collective Reasoning v.1 Chicago, IL [solo]
2006 Collective Reasoning v.2 Chicago, IL [solo]
2006 Soul Junkies Chicago, IL [solo]
2006 Inner Sound System Chicago, IL [solo]
2006 Jody Cooley presents… Chicago, IL [group]
2006 Meble Chicago, IL [group]
2006 Bolat Chicago, IL [solo]
2006 CoreNET Silent Auction Chicago, IL [group]
2006 Espia – Espacino Imagen Alternativa Mexico City, Mexico [group]
2006 Espacio El Galeron- Desde Chicago y en Oposicion Mexico City, Mexico [group]
2006 Rebirth at the Hot House Chicago, IL [solo]
2006 System Chicago, IL [solo]
2006 The Silver Room Chicago, IL [group]
2006 Color Motion Form Depth (pt.I) Chicago, IL [group]
2006 Around the Coyote Chicago, IL [group]
2006/07 People Lounge Chicago, IL [solo]
2007 Color Motion Form Depth (pt.2) Chicago, IL [group]
2007 Winter Arts Festival Chicago, IL [solo]
2007 Q4 Gallery Chicago, IL [group]
2007 Benefit for Andrew Jackson Language Academy Chicago, IL [group]
2007 Acknowledgement/Resolution at Las Manos Gallery Chicago, IL [group]
2007 Interpretable Chaos v.1 gallery of the Hot House Chicago, IL [solo]
2007 Puma celebrates Guillermo Vilas @ All Rise Gallery Chicago, IL [group]
2007 Q4 Gallery Chicago, IL [group]
2007 Salon Beaumonde Chicago, IL [solo]
2007 Marshall McGearty Chicago,IL [group]
2007 Humboldt Park art fair Chicago,IL [group]
2007 Sound System Block Party Chicago,IL [group]
2007 Tzeta Gallery Chicago,IL [group]
2007 Bolat Chicago,IL [solo]
2007 Around the Coyote: Marshal Mcgearty's Chicago,IL [group]
2007 Gary Comer youth center Chicago,IL [group]
2007 Around the Coyote: Silver Room Chicago,IL [solo]
2007 Macy's on State, Chicago [group]
currently work available in studio as well as FlatFile Gallery, Chicago, IL

*to date: 170+ works in private collection September 2005 – March 2008

What is your website address?

http://www.artofsen.carbonmade.com

How did you hear about Brooklyn Art Project?

craig told me