From the Brand Library & Art Center announcement:
Brand Library & Art Center is please to present Man Made, an exhibition that explores the urban ecology of our built environment through the distinctive artwork of seven remarkable women: Jacqueline Bell Johnson, Anita Bunn, Chelsea Dean, Jennifer Gunlock, Jenene Nagy, Michelle Robinson and Sinziana Velicescu. Each artist, through their own unique practice, honors the physical act of creation and expands the language of environmental engagement. By exploring different ways of seeing, representing and connecting ubiquitous forms, shapes and objects in our surroundings, the artist abstracts reality; resulting in beautiful, anomalous truths, seemingly prophetic vistas, and meticulously rendered constructions. The exhibition features installation, sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing and collage.
“The built environment is both the frame and the expression of mankind.”
– Sven Sandstrom (author and art critic)
Brand Library & Art Center has been a cornerstone for the arts in Southern California since 1956. This unique public library focuses on visual arts and music and provides free services and programs for a diverse community, including a collection of over 110,000 items, subject specialist librarians, exhibitions, concerts, dance performances, films, and craft programs for children and adults. Brand Library & Art Center is a branch of the City of Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department.
Haunt a Distant Corner, Chelsea Dean, 2017. Artist’s photograph, contact paper, gold foil, foam core, and frame from abandoned homestead, dimensions variable (installation).
Haunt a Distant Corner, Chelsea Dean, 2017. Artist’s photograph, contact paper, gold foil, foam core, and frame from abandoned homestead, dimensions variable (installation). (detail)
Pattern of Sprawl, Chelsea Dean, 2017. Relief prints of found doormat, dimensions variable (installation) individual print 14.5 x 19 inches.
When Patterns are Broken, Chelsea Dean, 2017. Artist’s photograph, paper, gold foil, and foam core on monotype, 29 x 31 inches.
Immured in Concrete I, Chelsea Dean, 2017. Lithographic photo transfers and distressed mylar on paper, 22 x 15 inches.
Immured in Concrete II, Chelsea Dean, 2017. Lithographic photo transfers and distressed mylar on paper, 22.25 x 15 inches.
Immured in Concrete III, Chelsea Dean, 2017. Lithographic photo transfers and distressed mylar on paper, 22.25 x 15 inches.
Immured in Concrete IV, Chelsea Dean, 2017. Lithographic photo transfers and distressed mylar on paper, 22.25 x 15 inches.
Immured in Concrete V, Chelsea Dean, 2017. Lithographic photo transfers and distressed mylar on paper, 22.25 x 15 inches.