Artist Lecture: Melissa Dean

Melissa Dean spoke about the focus of her art work and some of the things that drew her to the subject. Dean concentrates mostly on consumer products. She displays the images in such a way that she strips away the function of the product and leaves only its form behind. Dean takes the outline of the products and overlaps them so that in the end each piece is barely identifieable. By doing this she is in a way showing the overwhelming effect our own consumerism has in our lives. This process has become a way to look at people and to use objects as a way of representing a person. It also shows a persons own taste and how minimalist or extravagent they are. Dean uses her work to not only explore how objects can be abstracted but how they are absorbed during our everyday lives and how they represent the saturation of visual media.