StandardVision Spotlight: Artist Chelsea Dean Explores the Spaces In Between Order and Entropy
On View:
#SVLA1 Screen at the Courtyard Marriott
901 W. Olympic Blvd. – Los Angeles, CA
Playing every 5 minutes from April 26th – May 16th
StandardVision’s latest artist spotlight features powerfully stark images of abandoned homesteads in the high desert from multidisciplinary artist Chelsea Dean on the digital facade at the Courtyard Marriott L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles.
The series is a unique perspective on iconic Mid Century Modern architecture blended with the arid and isolated landscapes of Wonder Valley, California. Inspired by the places where she lives and works—both Los Angeles, CA, and Wonder Valley—Dean’s current body of work explores systems that erode and the conflict between order and entropy. Shelters built by optimistic homesteaders now abandoned, evidence of domesticity, and discarded personal artifacts are incorporated throughout Dean’s work, enriching her photographs with layers both sublime and brutal.
Combining photographs, experimental printmaking, drawing, collage techniques, and installation, Dean seeks to assign new meaning to these landscapes and structures. The work reveals both beauty and decay, dimensionally layering information spatially, revealing elements of the original object or ideal, as well as imagination of its inevitable destruction.
Chelsea Dean earned her BA in Studio Art from the University of Puget Sound and MFA in Drawing from Claremont Graduate University. Since 2005 she has worked and lived in Los Angeles. Dean has exhibited widely in Los Angeles including exhibitions at Keystone Gallery, PØST, Merchant Gallery, High Desert Test Sites, Brand Library & Art Center, The Main Museum, and more. Dean’s studio practice includes printmaking, drawing, photography, sculpture, and collage techniques, exploring architecture, home life, personal artifacts, and the decay of domestic ideals. Her process involves thoughtful exploration, documentation, gathering, and reimagining of both urban and rural landscapes.
Catch Chelsea Dean’s rich studies of these abandoned homesteads on StandardVision’s media facade at the Courtyard Marriott L.A. Live through May 16th, and learn more about her work by visiting her website.
