Max Dean (artist) explained

Max Dean
Birth Date:29 June 1949
Birth Place:Leeds, England
Nationality:Canadian
Occupation:Artist
Notable Works:The Table: Childhood
Robotic Chair

Max Dean (born June 29, 1949) is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist.[1] [2]

Life

Dean was born June 29, 1949, in Leeds, England. He immigrated to Canada with his family in 1952, settling in Vancouver.[3]

Work

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Dean did multimedia performances involving his body in conjunction with sound, photography and other media.[4] [5] [6] Dean`s Telephone Project (1982) was an installation that allowed up to 16 persons to talk on a telephone line.[7]

Since the 1980s, Dean has become known for his installations that use robotics and electronics to achieve artistic effects.[8] His work As Yet Untitled (1992-1995) involves a robotic arm that presents generic family photos to the viewer, who must act to prevent the photo from being immediately shredded.[9] [10] [11] [12] The piece received extensive press and critical coverage[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] and was acquired by the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Dean has collaborated extensively with Cornell University professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Raffaello D'Andrea. Between 2003 and 2006[18] they collaborated with Canadian artist Matt Donovan to create the installation work Robotic Chair, a chair that falls apart and puts itself back together again without human intervention.[19] [20] [21] Dean also collaborated with D'Andrea on the work The Table: Childhood, which was included in the Arsenale section of the 2001 Venice Biennale.[22] [23]

He is the subject of Katherine Knight's 2021 documentary film Still Max.[24] In 2022, the Portrait Gallery of Canada organized Max Dean: Portrait of the Artist as Artist, an online exhibition curated by Ann Thomas as guest curator.[25]

Collections

Dean's work is included in several museum collections, including the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery.[26] His piece As Yet Untitled is part of the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario.[27]

Awards

In 1997, Dean received the Jean A. Chalmers National Visual Arts Award from the Ontario Arts Council.[28] In 2005, Dean received the Gershon Iskowitz prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario.[29] [30] In 2014, he was a recipient of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.[31]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Max Dean - National Gallery of Canada. National Gallery of Canada. May 26, 2016.
  2. Web site: Max Dean: A Year of Waiting. Canadian Art. May 26, 2016.
  3. Book: Roger Matuz. Contemporary Canadian artists. 1997. Gale Canada. 978-1-896413-46-4.
  4. Web site: Mark. Lisa Gabrielle. Button Pusher. Canadian Art. May 28, 2016.
  5. Book: A. A. Bronson. Peggy Gale. Performance by artists. registration. 1979. Art Metropole. 978-0-920956-00-7.
  6. Book: Donald McGrath. Diana Nemiroff. Michèle Thériault. France Choinière . Colette Tougas. Tim Barnard. Point & shoot: performance and photography. April 2005. Dazibao. 978-2-922135-26-8.
  7. Book: "Sculpture and Installation since 1960". The Visual Arts in Canada: the Twentieth Century. Wood . William . 322. 2010. Oxford University Press. Foss, Brian, Paikowsky, Sandra, Whitelaw, Anne (eds.). 978-0-19-542125-5. Don Mills, Ont.. 432401392 .
  8. Web site: Max Dean. Widewalls.ch. June 10, 2016.
  9. Book: Del Loewenthal. Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age. 2013. Routledge. 978-0-415-66735-7. 130–.
  10. Book: Martha Langford. Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art. June 27, 2007. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 978-0-7735-7686-5. 13–.
  11. Book: Uwe Fleckner. Martin Warnke. Hendrik Ziegler. Handbuch der politischen Ikonographie. 2011. C.H.Beck. 978-3-406-57765-9. 148–.
  12. Book: C International Contemporary Art. 1996. C magazine.
  13. Book: Peter Weiermair. Frankfurter Kunstverein. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Prospect: photography in contemporary art : Frankfurter Kunstverein, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. 1996. Edition Stemmle. 9783908162193 .
  14. News: Milroy. Sarah. We need artists to soldier on. The Globe and Mail. October 2, 2001 . June 10, 2016.
  15. Book: British Journal of Photography. 2001. Henry Greenwood & Company, Limited.
  16. Web site: Lewis. Jacob. How the Tate Brought a Pioneering Art-Robot Back Online. Gizmodo UK. June 10, 2016.
  17. Book: Art/text. 1996. Art & Text.
  18. Book: Sean Cubitt. Paul Thomas. Relive: Media Art Histories. November 8, 2013. MIT Press. 978-0-262-01942-2. 259–.
  19. Web site: Ju. Anne. Raffaello D'Andrea's robotic chair creates stir online, falling apart and reassembling itself. Cornell University News. Cornell University. May 28, 2016.
  20. News: Bosco. Roberta. El robot como experimento estético. El Pais. March 8, 2016 . May 28, 2016.
  21. Web site: Haider. Saba. Ever Wished For A Chair That Can Re-assemble On Its Own? Wish Granted.. Gizmodo India. May 28, 2016.
  22. Book: David Krasner. David Z. Saltz. Staging Philosophy: Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy. February 11, 2010. University of Michigan Press. 978-0-472-02514-5. 102–.
  23. Book: Art Papers. 2002. Atlanta Art Papers, Incorporated.
  24. Chris Hampton, "When Max Dean was diagnosed with cancer, he did exactly what he always does: he made art out of it". CBC Arts, May 6, 2021.
  25. Web site: Exhibitions . /maxdean.portraitcanada.ca . Portrait Gallery of Canada . 7 June 2024.
  26. Web site: Vancouver Art Gallery showcases artworks from the collection in The Poetics of Space. Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver Art Gallery. May 27, 2016.
  27. Web site: Phillips. Sherry. Conservation Notes: Rebooting Max Dean's As Yet Untitled. Art Gallery of Ontario. June 10, 2016.
  28. Web site: The Chalmers Awards for Creative Excellence in the Arts. Ontario Arts Council. May 26, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20081201020013/http://www.arts.on.ca/Asset290.aspx. December 1, 2008. dead.
  29. News: Artist Max Dean wins Gershon Iskowitz Prize. The Globe and Mail. May 27, 2005 . June 10, 2016.
  30. Web site: The Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO. The Art Gallery of Ontario. June 10, 2016.
  31. Web site: Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Canada Council. May 26, 2016.

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