il y a fait des ronds (It was made round)

Frieda Dean

Using found objects to blot out or impress images on the matrix, Frieda Dean creates a luminous, underwater-like world that evokes a sense of floating or airiness. As with much of her work, she's chosen to work within a non-representational ideology, presenting her abstraction like a landscape that is both indeterminate and familiar, not unlike the images in a David Attenbourough film on the Blue Planet.

In 1996 Dean joined the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, an experimental print workshop. Collagraphs and monotypes created there were exhibited in her solo shows at the Lang Gallery, McHenry County College, Chicago in January 1997 and the ADC Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York in October 1999. Those prints featured various combinations of organic forms, such as leaves, vine tendrils, and dried seaweed; fabrics, hair, and antique wooden letterpress forms.

In 2000 Dean was invited to join Krishna Reddy's Color Print Atelier at NYU where she produced a body of color viscosity prints whose imagery is based on organic or blown-ink forms. During this period her work began to show the influence of her study of American Abstract Expressionist paintings and prints.

Frieda Dean currently resides and works in her hometown of Augusta, Georgia.