Alcaston Gallery is currently hosting an online exhibition featuring the works of Dean Smith. For this exhibition, the artist has made some slab-built vessels. The essence of the works are based around structures, chambers or tombs — permanent structures housing the impermanent — and the permanent structure erased by the forces of nature, beauty and fragility. Born in 1971 in Brisbane, Dean Smith is a ceramic artist, working with special-effect, high-fire glazes combined with low fire enamels and precious metal lusters. The artist investigates the aesthetics of wonder: a ceaseless human impulse to render the invisible visible. The artist received a double B.A. in Art and the History of Art in 1984 and a M.F.A. degree in 1988 all from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a recipient of a California Arts Council Fellowship Award in 2002. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco; Gallery Joe, Philadelphia; Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica; and Marvelli Gallery, New York. His drawings are represented in numerous public collections: The British Museum, London; Hammer Museum and LACMA, Los Angeles; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York; Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum.The exhibition will be on view through January 31, 2018, at Alcaston Gallery.For details visit: http://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/alcaston-gallery/overviewClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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