Cleveland Dean's Page

First Name

Cleveland Dean

Last Name

the next one

Age

25-34

Which of the following best describe you?

Painter, Sculptor, Other

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?

Gravitating to the influences of the early American Abstract Expressionist movement and Asian calligraphy, Cleveland Dean pulls from various elements and life experience and has formed an individual style that reflects his vision, intellect, passions, transgressions, and love. The centered ideology is that which is to evoke individual thought for the viewer as opposed to being conditioned to what one should think or see. Being self-taught he refuses to be “professionally” schooled to techniques of art, believing that, a true artist disciplines oneself to find their way and the means for expression.


“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”.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Cleveland Dean has been part of several Solo as well as group exhibitions ,artist talks and has been an influential contributor (deemed one of the pioneers) to the live painting exhibition movement that has found growth in Chicago.

Style Network (November 2006)
Work featured on ‘We Live Here’

5 Magazine (February 2007)
Artist Spotlight, Feature Article

Gianofer Fields, interview with Cleveland Dean, Old School Artist Cleveland Dean, National Public Radio, WBEZ (848), (Chicago, 17 July 2008)

Mural completed at A.N. Pritzer Elementary, Chicago (August 2008)

Nominated by the Chicago Artists Coalition as 2008 Chicago Artist to Watch (June 2008)
Chicago Artist Coalition Interview (September 2008)

Pepper Coate, “An Interview with Cleveland Dean - Chicago Artist to Watch”, Chicago Artist’s News (September 2008) p11, 19.

Aliya Levinson, Cleveland Dean “Chicago’s Dean of Art” Image Magazine (Aug/Sept 2008) p46.

Video short completed by Scott Montgomery Music Video Production Coneucopia Productions, Inc. “I’m an artist”

200+ works in private collection (September 2005 - August 2009)

Due to space constraints on this site please visit www.artofsen.carbonmade.com to see selected exhibitions.

What is your website address?

http://www.artofsen.carbonmade.com

What is your Twitter screen name? - include@ - ex. @bklynartprjct

fuck twitter

How did you hear about Brooklyn Art Project?

craig told me