Roger & Freya Dean | THE SECRET PATH

Roger Dean & Freyja Dean

“THE SECRET PATH”

November 19, 2022

627 E Main St,
Grass Valley, CA 95945

The Chambers Project Announces The Opening of Roger Dean & Freyja Dean’s – THE SECRET PATH

GRASS VALLEY, CA

The Secret Path is a spectacular exhibition of visionary paintings by beloved artists Roger Dean and his daughter Freyja Dean. Iconic Roger Dean is a spectacular artist whose work is dear to an immense audience of imaginative people. He is especially famous for his Yes album covers, and for inspiring the world of the movie Avatar.

The Secret Path is an invitation to take a journey into other worlds. Roger Dean is at the peak of his abilities – his recent paintings are superb, and he has found a well-earned place in the history of art. His recent canvas, The Quest, is an enigmatic and exotic landscape, but it is also warmly familiar. An alien sun rises over a mysterious landscape of organic granite formations, dotted with pines. A distant mountain range fills the horizon, catching golden light over blue snow. The middle ground is a wash of blues and purples about a strong outcrop of wind and water weathered stone. One of Dean’s signature Monterey Pines frames the sky, and enormous fungal succulents cap a cliff in the foreground, supported beneath by a flying buttress resembling a watching figure. Enigmatic, half-formed, suggested and uncertain, the stone-man gazes over the landscape and is simultaneously part of it – this is a gaze of wonder and harmony, and the painting tells the story of a transcendent moment of unity shared between human and environment.

Dean said, “I loved the idea of a Secret Path that cannot be found and is not susceptible to navigation but is reliably there, provided, it is not looked for. There are absolutely no limits, no boundaries.”

Why should people follow the secret path? Dean explains, “To access the most effective, the fastest and the most powerful parts of our brains, a way of expanding consciousness.”

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Group Show | ONE STEP FURTHER

Group Show

“ONE STEP FURTHER”

November 11, 2021

627 E Main St,
Grass Valley, CA 95945

The Chambers Project Announces The Opening of “One Step Further” An exhibit of visionary and psychedelic art.

GRASS VALLEY, CA

The inaugural group show at the new Chambers Project gallery is an important moment in the history of psychedelic art. The gallery provides New Psychedelia with a professional and serious home, a stable sanctuary of credibility in the chaotic art world. Psychedelic art has come of age.

The paintings and sculptures include works by new masters and iconic figures from the genre’s history. Massive and spectacular canvases fill the gallery walls, immersing spectators into a visionary landscape of tumbling colors and shapes, toppling through space and sometimes spilling from the frames.

Spectacular twelve feet wide paintings by Mars-1 and Oliver Vernon dominate the space, and the two artists will paint new work for a live audience. These artists are destined for the history of art as pioneers of the new psychedelia. Mars-1 makes sensual, delicate paintings, surging out of their two-dimensional surface into the three-dimensional world. A trained painter, he has a sophisticated classical touch and a comforting sense of color which invites his audience to enjoy the sensual compositions he makes. He is influenced by the aesthetics of computer graphics, and has worked with the industry’s software, but, “discovered that I did a lot better when I didn’t have anyone art directing me, but I definitely used that experience as an opportunity to strengthen my paintings.”

New psychedelic art has carved out a niche in the contemporary art market. Curator Brian Chambers said, “The show ties the contemporary psychedelic world to the godfathers of the scene. The new school and the old school. It’s a celebration of all the major influences that have combined to shape new psychedelia. Now psychedelic art is something to be proud of. It’s proper and proud to declare yourself psychedelic. It’s appropriate and safe to do so. This is psychedelic art. This is who we are. I’m focused and specialized. Smaller galleries and smaller cities can have a bigger footprint these days. The field is gaining traction – a lot of new eyes are looking at it, and it’s moving into the blue-chip arena.”

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Oliver Vernon’s work began in the traditions of 1950’s abstraction, but the psychedelic experience transformed his work and his practice and has brought it an intense and colorful freshness. There’s no zombie abstraction here. Dramatic, and convincing, his work marks an evolution in the history of all-over painting. Vernon said, “The psychedelic experience was a key to unlocking a crazy force. Uninterrupted, no hesitation, pouring, shifting gears, and changing modes rapidly, without having to stop and contemplate what they should be. It was a revelation.