The Haight Avenue Artwork Middle presents an exhibition by famed U.Okay. artists Roger Dean and his daughter, Freyja Dean. Roger Dean’s profession spans greater than 60 years and his dazzling large-scale work, drawings, and sculpture have cemented him a spot in each fashionable tradition and the world of high quality artwork. Freyja Dean is the following technology of Dean household artists and has gained worldwide consideration for her portray, sculpture, and cloth artwork. This exhibition connects all sides of the Deans’ wide-ranging and stressed creativeness.
BEYOND THE VISUAL
The Deans have cast a broad path of cultural affect via the years. Roger Dean, an award-winning album cowl artist primarily identified for his in depth work with the band Sure, is also referred to as the “solely member of Sure who doesn’t play an instrument.” Guests to the Artwork Middle will acknowledge well-known work that grew to become the paintings for a few of his legendary album covers, in addition to research of his extraordinary design work, together with his iconic Sure brand.
To not be simply confined, Roger Dean’s work spans high quality artwork to graphic design, structure to stage units, from small-scale drawings to stadium-sized vistas. Blue Planet Alliance Founder Henk Rogers says, “I’ve labored with Roger for 35 years and couldn’t be extra honored to assist ‘The Secret Path’ on the Haight Avenue Artwork Middle. In all my years in publishing, I’ve by no means met an artist as proficient and straightforward to work with as Roger. We’ve labored collectively on dozens of tasks, beginning with the quilt and brand for the sport Tremendous Black Onyx to the Tetris brand, our largest and most generally identified collaboration, for a recreation that has offered 500 million copies. Roger’s artwork has enriched us in so some ways.”
Freyja Dean has made her personal manner and developed her personal type that bears a relationship to her father’s. The precision and element in her otherworldly landscapes are knowledgeable by her research in pure historical past illustration. She has additionally studied forensic facial reconstruction at Cambridge College and the historical past of medication via the Open College. Influenced by these numerous matters, she has labored designing opera costumes, character design for laptop video games, and album covers, and has additionally created work for public artwork areas and medical museums. She just lately labored for the Royal School of Surgeons creating artificial physique elements for surgical trainees to follow procedures on, in addition to freelance design tasks and exhibitions within the U.Okay. and Japan, the place she is at the moment residing. “With each venture, I begin by asking myself, ‘what do I wish to exist on the planet the place this little bit of area is, in entrance of me.’ This query applies whether or not I’m doing an album cowl, designing costumes or characters for an opera or recreation, or once I’m engaged on tasks of my very own.”
Curated by Roger Dean in session with Freyja Dean, the exhibition contains greater than 50 works that may furnish patrons with an imaginative and immersive expertise that speaks to the challenges of the current whereas trying ahead towards a optimistic future.
THE SECRET PATH OF LIFE
The artwork of the Deans embarks the viewer on a journey crammed with tales. These tales are imbued with magic: the magic in nature and in pure phenomena and formations. “This exhibition invitations viewers to develop into individuals,” stated Roger Dean. “We’re all fellow travellers on the key path of life. The signposts alongside the best way are our artwork works, however the vacation spot — the longer term — belongs to everybody.”
For the Deans, this exhibition is a vital step in that journey. “We should imagine in a future price striving for,” defined Freyja Dean. “For all of us, there’s a secret or hidden path whose entirety we can not see whereas we dwell it.”
The Secret Path: The Artwork of Roger and Freyja, Thu.–Solar. midday–6 p.m. via Oct. 30, free, Haight Avenue Artwork Middle, 215 Haight Avenue (at Laguna), haightstreetart.org
Sharon Anderson is an artist and author in Southern California. She may be reached at mindtheimage.com.
