Artist: Joel Dean
Exhibition title: Evolve Right Now
Venue: Prairie, Chicago, US
Date: September 13 – October 27, 2019
Photography: All images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Prairie, Chicago
For those seeking a soulmate: Loveliness is loneliness. The collaged objects of the-end-of-days conjunct the plutonic week.
For those seeking a sustained tone: Fukushima daisies, petals warped back. “Everyone has a black hole inside them, even the universe.”
For those seeking palm trees planted outside a corporate medical building: Hearts, juicy warm, ripe to the touch, sterile.
For the sleeping loaves of terraced corn: A gauzy afterlife.
For those who ask themselves: “If I am not myself, then who am I?”: Remember stars and mosquitos intertwined.
For the Divinely fragrant: a song to heal the healer.
For those searching through their pockets: find veins within serpentine rocks. A chalcedony with rich moss-like inclusions.
If you are guided by inner sincerity; intuition updates in hard times.
For those seeking an end: Everything is in flux. Meaning anything could happen or not happen.
Let go!
Creation takes place in the void!
Facilitate angelic contact.
Dissolve self-sabotaging behavior.
Go down the mountain into the valley of the dolls.
Evolve right now.
– Zoe Brezsny & Joel Dean
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 4), 2019, bass, hammerhead, nail
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 4), 2019, bass, hammerhead, nail
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 18), 2019, bass, hammerhead
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 31), 2019, bass, hammerhead
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 14), 2019, bass, hammerhead
Joel Dean, Hearts, 2019, bubblewrap
Joel Dean, Hearts, 2019, bubblewrap
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 8), 2019, maple, hammerhead
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 13), 2019, bass, hammerhead; Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 21), 2019, bass, hammerhead
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 16), 2019, bass, hammerhead, nail
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Left: Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 30), 2019, maple, hammerhead; Right: Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 31), 2019, maple, hammerhead
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 6), 2019, pine, hammerhead
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 24), 2019, poplar, hammerhead
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 2), 2019, oak, plastic, hammerhead
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 27), 2019, bass, hammerhead
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 3), 2019, bass, hammerhead
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammer 26), 2019, bass, hammerhead
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now (Anthrohammers 1), 2019, pine, hammerheads, plastic, staples
Joel Dean, Evolve Right Now, 2019, exhibition view, Prairie, Chicago
Joel Dean, Untitled, 2019, wine glass, light fixture
Joel Dean, Untitled, 2019, wine glass, light fixture
Joel Dean, Untitled, 2019, wine glass, light fixture
Joel Dean, Untitled, 2019, wine glass, light fixture