Inner Sense @ Common Sense
Common Sense is privileged to host the latest exhibition of new work by Dean Smale: Inner Sense. The exhibition is open, free to the public, from October 10th to November 6th, 2009. All are welcome to view the art and meet Dean Smale at a special public reception, with the artist in attendance at Common Sense on Saturday, October 10th from 7 to 11 pm.
Dean Smale earned a MFA Degree from the University of Calgary and currently is a full-time instructor at Medicine Hat College in its Visual Communications program. He has also instructed visual arts at College of the Rockies, Eastern Oregon University, and Red Deer College. In his professional practice, he has been an artist lecturer at various educational institutes and galleries. He has won various awards, exhibits frequently (solo and group exhibitions), has been published, and his work is in collections in the US and Canada. In 1996-97, he worked as a practicing artist in London England and in 1998 he participated in the Susan Kasen-Summers Workshop in Bantam, Connecticut, U.S. CBC National Television published a documentary on his work for their Artspots Series in 2005.
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posted by MC @ 07:24
6 Comments:
I'm Dean Smale and you're not
I gotta say, the detail freaks me out a bit. Although I find that a few of the figural details make me wonder (the forehead goes so high and the cleavage starts so close to the gullet), I think it's the ashen-green glassy skin that I find most disturbing. Certain parts of her skin make her look like an anthropomorphized playing marble.
But I'll be there to check it out in person.
A friend emailed me the following advice for the artist:
"Personally, I think this dude better be careful. Lucas Film can be pretty litigious when it comes to their trademarked characters, even the lesser known ones like Yaddle".
LOL!!!
Have a great show reception, Dean! I'm glad to have met you this afternoon, sorry I couldn't have helped out more, and I think the exhibit looks swell.
I left this comment about your paintings a few seconds ago at artblog.net.
yeah, so i am the naked guy in the show.....there are a couple of posts on my blog about the painting, including the critique in the eugene weekly, which is so fabulous that i am surprised it was not quoted somewhere in connection with the show.
i did quite a bit of modeling in alberta in the past 7 years.
check out the blog at www.themodelundraped.blogspot.com
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