Cleveland Dean. Creative. Visual Artist. Mentor. Thinker. Chicago.
The work of multi-disciplined, self-taught, visual artist Cleveland Dean exists to address internally personal and societal quandaries in abstract and conceptual ways. His work speaks to that which is the now and how we relate, what our thought process has become and our place in this new inclusion yet isolation based world.
Cleveland Dean pulls from various elements and life experience and has formed an individual style that reflects his vision and his studies of philosophy, sociology, psychology, history as well as acting as a voyeur of humanity. The centered ideology is to evoke individual thought for the viewer, as opposed to being conditioned to what one should think and see, and how such resonates into other aspects of their lives.
Cleveland has served as a mentor as well as a member of the Board of Directors for several arts organizations and artist in residence for the Union League Club Boys and Girls Club.
Primarily Cleveland Dean's work finds creation via painting, mixed media, installation, video, sculpture and photography. The work also resides in several private and public collections on 6 continents.
Some people are sheep. Others are wolves. I exist to save as many sheep as I can when I am not training the wolves.
I have dedicated everything of myself to my life as a creative. There has been nothing easy in doing such. I have been fortunate to have had hundreds of exhibition, mostly solo, in galleries and museums around this country. I am fortunate to have my work on 6 of the 7 continents in private or public collections. I thank those that have aided me in this exhaustive journey. To those that wish to support my mission please join my community at patreon.com/clevelanddean . Support here enables me to continue my practice and do what I can to contribute to our growing historical dialogue. A great amount of gratitude is given to those that have helped me along the way and have given life to my purpose. Thank you.
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