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Joel Dean at Prairie

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

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