> STATEMENT
CLEVELAND DEAN
Established Independent, self-taught Chicago Artist. Emerging international artist. Live painter, event coordinator, and promoter. Formal professional Marketing background includes 6+ years combined experience in Sales as well as Account Management, customer service, and Personnel management (Retail, Telecomm, Wireless, ISP, Advertising).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SENstudios | Chicago IL 60647 | 07/2005-present
www.artofsen.carbonmade.com
Artist/ Live Performance Painter
· Participation in local/ International Chicago Solo and Group Exhibitions, Charity Benefits and Events, Art Festivals/ Fairs, and Live Art Performance engagements etc.
· Original artwork placement and commissioned works for private residential, commercial, and hospitality venues (refer to enclosed Exhibit list)
· Portfolio comprised of sculpture, original abstract artwork using paint, charcoal, ink and mixed media on canvas, wood, and paper.
To date: 195+ works reside in private collection
Artist Representation:
Manage selection, scheduling and month-long exhibits of Chicago's independent artists' paintings, conduct venue research/ selection, negotiate contractual rights and obligations with venue management, acting curator: oversee installation on behalf of exhibiting artists, responsible for marketing and promotion of planned events featuring artists via web and print advertising
Event Planning:
Employ market/ industry research skill and knowledge in identifying prospective event sponsors; develop ideas on premise events, manage and direct marketing communication, event promotion, public relations and other initiatives to reach targeted audiences; coordinate scheduling of DJs for participation in weekly performance engagements; coordinate design, development and dissemination of marketing collateral material
Education
Harrington College of Design Chicago, IL
Interior Design
Illinois State University Normal, IL
Liberal Arts
ARTIST STATEMENT
Cleveland Dean, also known as [Q.] has learned to live his life through the coarse bristles of a brush. A native to Chicago's Southside, Cleveland's childhood years reflected an innate talent and affinity for artistic expression. For several years he dabbled in various forms of artistic expression including drawing, songwriting, poetry, and spoken word. In the Summer of 2005, he found himself surrendering to his destiny upon the inspiration of his children's colored pencil scribbles that adorned his refrigerator. It was at this point, that he came to the realization that with simplistic form, vast expressions could be made. What was once a hobby, evolved into a life long pursuit of self-discovery, as he came to the realization that the art and process behind creation, indeed forms a roadmap to his psyche.
Gravitating to the influences of the early American Abstract Expressionist movement, Cleveland pulls from various elements and life experience, and has formed an individual style that reflects his vision, intellect, passions, transgressions, and love. As a self-taught artist, he refuses to be "professionally" schooled to techniques of art, asserting that a true artist disciplines oneself to determine their own style, and the appropriate means and medium(s) 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
Image Magazine (Summer issue 2008)
Article detailing work and progression
NPR- Chicago Public Radio (July 2008)
Feature Interview on 848 ‘Old School Artist'
Interviewed by Gianofer Fields
URL: www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=26490
2008 Chicago Artist to Watch
Nominated by the Chicago Artists Coalition (June 2008)
C.A.C. Interview (October 2008)
5 Magazine (February 2007)
Artist Spotlight, Feature Article
Style Network (November 2006)
Work featured on ‘We Live Here'
SOLO/ GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Look Gallery @ Macy's on State Street, Chicago, IL [solo]
R.E. Connect (c/o Cape Horn Group), Chicago IL [group]
Landmark Bar & Grill (c/o IMAGE Mag.) Chicago IL [group]
Terra Museum of American Art Chicago IL [group]
Landmark Bar & Grill, B.A.M. (c/o IMAGE Mag.) Chicago, IL [group]
Webster Wine Bar Chicago, IL [solo]
Humboldt Park Art Fair Chicago, IL [group]
The Silver Room/ SoundSystem Block Party Chicago, IL [group]
Bolat Chicago, IL [group]
2007
Color Motion Form Depth (pt. II) Chicago, IL [group]
@ Victor Hotel
Winter Arts Festival Chicago, IL [solo]
Q4 Gallery Chicago, IL [group]
Andrew Jackson Language Academy Benefit Chicago, IL [group]
The Silver Room/ SoundSystem Block Party Chicago, IL [group]
Save Darfur Benefit- Acknowledgement/ Chicago, IL [group]
Resolution @ Las Manos Gallery
Interpretable Chaos v.1 gallery of the Hot House Chicago, IL [solo]
Humboldt Park Art Fair Chicago, IL [group]
PUMA/ Guillermo Vilas tribute- All Rise Gallery Chicago, IL [group]
Q4 Gallery Chicago, IL [group]
Tzeta Gallery Chicago, IL [group]
Around the Coyote @ The Silver Room Chicago, IL [solo]
Around the Coyote @ Marshall McGearty Chicago, IL [group]
Art blowout @ Gary Comer Youth Center Chicago, IL [group]
People Lounge Chicago, IL [solo]
2006
Collective Reasoning v.2 Chicago, IL [solo]
Soul Junkies @ Sonotheque Chicago, IL [solo]
Inner Sound System Chicago, IL [solo]
MEBLE Chicago, IL [group]
CoreNET Silent Auction Chicago, IL [group]
Espia - Espacino Imagen Alternativa Mexico City, Mexico [group]
Espacio El Galeron- Desde Chicago y en Oposicion Mexico City, Mexico [group]
The Silver Room/ SoundSystem Block Party Chicago, IL [group]
Rebirth at the Hot House Chicago, IL [solo]
The Silver Room Chicago, IL [group]
Color Motion Form Depth @ Victor Hotel (pt. I) Chicago, IL [group]
Around the Coyote Chicago, IL [group]
2005
Collective Reasoning v.1 Chicago, IL [solo]
Cleveland Dean has been part of several exhibitions and has been an influential contributor (deemed one of the pioneers) to the live painting exhibition movement that has found growth in Chicago.
For more information please contact the artist directly
Cleveland Dean
773.495.3944
artofesn@gmail.com
Catalogued works are available online
www.artofsen.carbonmade.com
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