TRANSYLVANIA by Chris Dean

Drinks Preview: Wednesday 3rd November 6-8pm

Exhibition Dates
LONDON: the show runs through to the 24th November

Gallery Hours
Monday to Friday 10.30am - 6 pm Saturday 12 - 3pm (or by appointment)

Address
81 Rochester Row, London SW1P 1LJ

Artist Biography: Chris Dean is one of a small number of artists with a studio practice dedicated to lenticular work. Dean's interest in the medium evolved from early experiments with stereoscopic imagery at San Jose State in the 1990's and has grown to include a range of methods for capturing and producing motion 3D lenticular.

Since his first solo show in 2006 Dean has exhibited with a number of well known artists including Mark Ryden, Robert Williams, Gary Baseman, Ron English and many others in galleries across the United States. In 2008 Chris Dean and Glen Barr were chosen to represent Detroit in an international campaign by 1800 Tequila that featured their work in numerous magazines and billboards. Dean's first solo appearance outside the US will take place November 2010 at Mauger Modern Art in London.

'Detroit, a city once called "the Paris of the west" is probably more famous for its haunting ruins than any recent accomplishments. Large parts of the city are returning to nature, trees grow through abandoned buildings and pheasants are now common in many areas. People are farming land where houses once stood and prairies are expanding by the acre. While some of this is genuinely charming it exists within a system of political corruption, poverty, crime, inadequate public services and a failing school system'.
Chris Dean 2010

*A lenticular is a combination of a special lens and an arrayed image that simulates animation or depth. Autostereoscopic images refer to pictures that take advantage of how our eyes and visual cornea process the two images that the left and right eyes receive. They interpret them as depth and 3-dimensionality. A lenticular uses the movement of our bodies in relation to produce a pseudo-hologram that might look like a person running, an apple popping out of a flat poster, or a distant car approaching.