Dean Gazeley
Canada, 1960

In the aftermath of the epic art battles that shook the last century, avant-garde and traditional forms have come to resemble each other, switch places even. So-called modern art sometimes appears conventional, Velasquez and Goya eternally radical. Abstraction can seem tame, representation revolutionary. In this paradoxical new space, artist and viewer are free to enjoy equally the challenge of experiment and the pleasure of enduring forms - to savor uninhibitedly what Octavio Paz once called "the fiesta of the object."

Dean Gazeley´s art invokes multiple levels of perception. Nature, objects, and materials that surround us daily reform and reveal themselves under the artist´s keen eye and master hand. Though rooted in Mexico where Gazeley lives and paints, the work travels unconstrained across space and time in reference, technique and subject. Seduced at first by the composition, we end up gazing into the subject´s eyes; initially ravished by color and line, we end up thinking about our lives. Dean Gazeley´s art is about the rewards and revelations of passionate attention, the luminous engagement of the artist with his world.