Visual Art

at the Wilson Center

Ploch Art Gallery

Dean Valadez

Our Plastic Visage and the Rainbow Machine Complex

On view: January 6–February 26
Free Reception: January 27

Ploch Season presented by

Brookfield

Berzerker Remix by Dean Valadez

Dean Valadez uses imagery that feels much like a deconstruction of space and matter. Using oil, acrylic, photography, paper collage, and printing, Valadez’s earlier work drew inspiration from George Orwell’s book 1984 and focused on the ways in which technology shapes our experience. He continues with this theme in a new body of work currently in production that will be on display in the Ploch Art Gallery January 6 through February 26.

The new series will continue to deconstruct space by enhancing it, questioning it, and reversing it. We are reminded of how we experience the world through layered mediated references. In Valadez’s own words, “my newer body of work is partially related to the micro-experience of seeing humanity through simulated renderings as cultures now are more often migrating themselves into highly constructed and mediated environments. In a sense, mediation is not always about the digital, but also about the appropriation of already-experienced experiences or the already-fabricated image-object."

Mr. Valadez received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Boston University. Currently residing in Milwaukee, Valdez lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He shows his work throughout the country.

Meet the Artist

Join us for a free reception on January 27, 6:30-8:00 pm and meet Artist Dean Valadez.

RSVP to rsvp@wilson-center.com. Please write "dean" in the subject line.