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Dean Byington

April 13, 2024

Dean Byington (born 1958), is a visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1][2] He is known for large, hyper-detailed mixed-media paintings and paper collages of labyrinthine landscapes and invented universes that serve as settings for enigmatic allegories on nature, culture, time and humanity's effect on the planet.[3][4][5][6] Seamless amalgams of images reworked from diverse sources, including his own stylized drawings, his art evokes fairy tales gone awry, the precision of centuries-old etchings and cartographic detail, and utopian and dystopian science-fiction.[7][8][9] In 2017, critic Shana Nys Dambrot wrote, "achieving a profound, operatic feat of scale, density, and clarity … Byington’s surrealism is that of dreams and memories, with an internal logic that unifies Eastern and Western antiquity, the consequences of climate change, the engineering of urban sprawl, and the limited role of culture in making sense of the soul- and soil-crushing weight of all that civilization."[3]

Dean Byington
Born1958
Santa Monica, California, US
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley; University of California, Santa Cruz
Known forPainting, works on paper, collage
WebsiteDean Byington
Dean Byington, Theory of Machines (Grand Saturn), oil on linen, 57.5" x 65", 2017.

Byington's work belongs to the public art collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago and Berkeley Art Museum, among others.[10][11][12][13] He has exhibited at the San Jose Museum of Art,[10] Nevada Museum of Art,[14] San Antonio Museum of Art,[4] Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,[15] Frist Art Museum[16] and Katzen Arts Center.[17]

Early life and career edit

Byington was born in 1958 in Santa Monica, California. His parents participated in the Manhattan Project. His father, an engineer, worked at Los Alamos and on the instrumentation at the Nevada test sites; his mother was a geologist and served as one of Robert Oppenheimer's secretaries.[4][16][18] Byington grew up in Culver City, California, exploring the full-scale outdoor sets of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Desilu Studios as an adolescent; the influence of that experience and his parents' history is discernible in various cinematic, geological and apocalyptic aspects of his art.[2][4][16][18] In 1980, he received a BA and certificate of art from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He earned an MA and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987 and 1988.[1][19]

Byington's early works were large photographic assemblages composed by projecting old daguerreotypes (of military technologies, UFOs and historical events among other subjects) piecemeal onto canvas and acetate painted with photo emulsion.[20][21][22] During this period, he appeared in group shows at the Crocker Art Museum, Real Art Ways and Nasher Museum of Art, among others, and solo exhibitions at Gallery Paule Anglim (now Anglim/Trimble) in San Francisco.[19][20]

By the early-2000s, he had shifted from photochemical methods to a labor-intensive process involving collage, silkscreening and hand-painting that first involved teaching himself to draw in the stylized manner of nineteenth-century wood engraving.[23][1] With this work, he began receiving increased attention, through solo exhibitions at Paule Anglim[24][25] and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects in New York;[26][1] he has continued to exhibit at both galleries.[9][27] In the 2000s, he has also had solo exhibitions at the San Jose Museum of Art, Frist Art Museum, Katzen Arts Center and Kohn Gallery (Los Angeles),[10][28][17][29] and appeared in surveys at the Nevada Museum of Art, de Saisset Museum, San Antonio Museum of Art and Neuberger Museum of Art, among others.[14][30][4][31] A monograph of his work, Dean Byington, was published in 2015 and includes an original short story and poem by Rick Moody and essay by Griff Williams.[10]

Work and reception edit

Byington's work mainly consists of large canvases fusing screened oil on linen and hand-painting as well as small, detailed works on paper composed of tiny, hand-cut photocopies from old illustrated books and his own drawings.[21] He creates the paintings through a meticulous process merging digital and analog, and the handmade and mechanical.[32][33][8] He photocopies and collages imagery—his drawings, Victorian-era illustrations, historical images—then works into them to achieve coherence, before scanning and silkscreening the work onto canvas (sometimes in multiple prints) and, finally, connecting interstices by hand-painting details and (occasional) washes of color.[2][1][4][34] The canvases function like enclosures, Immersing viewers viscerally in all-over compositions that counterpoint the "antique" quality of the imagery with contemporary painting strategies involving frontality, flatness, layering and instantaneity.[35][2] The work's packed, sometimes-obscured imagery and unexpected juxtapositions—conflicting pictorial and architectural logics, natural and human-made environments devoid of people, animals engaged in human behaviors—generate ambiguous narratives that can range from fanciful, even romantic to eerie to Cassandra-like in their forebodings of apocalypse.[5][18][9][2]

Critics have connected Byington's art to the intricate works of diverse artists including Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Dürer, M. C. Escher and filmmaker Terry Gilliam, the surrealist collages of Max Ernst and Kurt Schwitters, and the mid-20th century Bay Area assemblage and psychedelic aesthetic.[32][36][27][3] In a 2003 essay, John Yau related Byington's use of silkscreening to earlier practitioners such as Rauschenberg and Warhol, but distinguished him—from them and from appropriation artists—by his emphasis on excavating pre-photographic sources rather than recontextualizing contemporary mass-media images.[35][22] In 2017, Griff Williams remarked, "the disjointed labyrinthine structures of Byington's work may be fueled by the legacy of dark scientific experiments or the artifice of Hollywood's past, but they also share sympathy with the Wunderkammer" (or German "cabinets of curiosities"), which "celebrated the intersections between science and superstition, the natural and artificial."[18]

Paintings, 2003–2010 edit

 
Dean Byington, Underground #1 (detail), oil on linen, 46" x 42", 2006.

In the 2000s, Byington largely focused on black and white paintings filled edge to edge with detailed renderings of flora, fauna and dilapidated, ramshackle structures, some of them punctuated by washes of jewel-like color (e.g., King and Queen, 2002).[24][7][32] These overgrown scenes were dizzying in their density and perceptually challenging, with flattened spaces lacking traditional entry points or clear distinctions between fore-, middle- and background;[37][32] noting the images' weaving of old and new visual modes, critics simultaneously compared their pattern-like motifs to ornate wallpaper, Chinese scrolls and modernist painting.[7][24][37] The seemingly benign scenes were populated with whimsical, anthropomorphic animals, which upon close inspection, were embroiled in sometimes-savage conflicts that suggested crises and devastations, past and present.[24][1][7] John Yau wrote of such works, "Despite their allusions to the Victorian and Symbolist eras, as well as to children's books, Byington's paintings are hardly nostalgic. In fact, these paintings strike me as both visionary and emotionally attuned to the sense of impending disaster that marks our historical moment."[35]

As the decade progressed, Byington pushed the horror vacui sense of density in the work and also began creating color canvasses that suggested mysterious minimalist monochromes in which his signature imagery appeared as if seen through an aquarium or fog (e.g. Underground #1, 2006; Waterfalls 2010);[5][32][27] The New Yorker described them as "glazed in candy-colored pink, green, or robin’s-egg blue, like Easter eggs—or blotter acid."[37] This work included the green "Underground" series, which featured with geologic forms: stalactites, stalagmites, minerals, gems, and cave-like openings into various spaces.[21]

Paintings, 2011–present edit

Writers suggest that Byington's later paintings explore historical and sociopolitical themes in a more expansive, cinematic manner in terms of vastness (their large scale and God's-eye views), sweeping subjects (climate change, terrorism, urban sprawl) and time (a sense of layer centuries of history including the potential future).[6][2][38] These paintings blur notions of urban and rural, ancient and modern, piling intractable ambiguities and compressed, distressed and fragmentary realities into monumental landscapes, geologic formations and industrial sites suggestive of post-human or post-apocalyptic, possibly alternate civilizations (Omphalos, 2011).[18][29][9][39] SquareCylinder described the maze of cellblock-like huts, scaffolding and brickwork in the black-and-white landscape Divided City (2015) as "an unending public works project … depict[ing] a mismanaged future, an allegory of Big Plans and half-starved dreams."[40]

In his exhibition, "The Theory of Machines" (Kohn Gallery, 2017), Byington presented nine large paintings of desolate, built scenes whose commonalities included skeletal and flayed structures, baroque facades, the great concentric holes of open pit mines and abandoned machines sprawled in ruin (e.g., Theory of Machines (Grand Saturn), 2017).[29][8][36] Bingham Canyon Mine (2017) offered a striated mining-ravaged landscape inspired by photographs of the two largest mines in the world (the title mine, in Utah and the Grasberg mine in Indonesia), "rebuilt into a futuristic city—part Piranesi, part Escher—of interconnected bridges, towers and scaffold-encased structures."[8][2]

 
Dean Byington, Oceans (Dream Painting #5), oil on linen, 67" x 82", 2022.

Byington's show "Cassandra: Truth and Madness" (Anglim/Trimble, 2022)—its title a reference to the Robinson Jeffers poem, Cassandra—offered a wider range of work depicting the world as a facade teetering on the brink of collapse in the wake of human activity.[9][2] The "Colossus" series (2022) depicted movie sets built on giant scaffolds towering over vast, carved out tracts of land.[9] Draped in front of the vast sites were curtain-like pastoral scenes resembling the romantic paintings of artists such as Frederic Church.[2] The effect was a layering of two human constructs—idealized landscapes embodying Manifest Destiny that obscured the dark side of American expansionism, placed band-aid-like over the giant open pits of mines—a metaphor for the veiling of devastation that political narratives enact.[2] In other paintings, dystopias invaded cinematic interiors; Oceans (2022) depicted a rising tide with a gliding shark swamping an opulent, Victorian bedroom.[2] Hyperallergic's Gabrielle Selz wrote of the show, "Drawing on the blast sites of the Nevada desert and abandoned scenery of movies like Citizen Kane, Byington’s visual language mingles romance and theatricality with the disastrous consequences of climate change and environmental contamination."[2]

Public collections edit

Byington's work belongs to the public art collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,[12] Berkeley Art Museum,[13] Chazen Museum of Art,[41] Cleveland Clinic,[42] di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art,[43] Fisher Landau Center for Art,[44] Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center,[45] Indianapolis Museum of Art,[46] Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[10] Nevada Museum of Art,[14] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 21c Museum Hotels,[38] Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,[34] and Whitney Museum of Art,[11] among others.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f Sheets, Hilarie M. "Critic's Pick: Dean Byington," ARTnews, January 2006, p. 144
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Selz, Gabrielle. "A Devastating and Breathtaking Vision of Climate Change," Hyperallergic, December 21, 2022. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  3. ^ a b c Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Dean Byington: Theory Of Machines at Kohn Gallery," WhiteHot Magazine, June, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Rubin, David. Psychedelic, Optical And Visionary Art Since The 1960s, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  5. ^ a b c Cash, Stephanie. "Dean Byington at Leslie Tonkonow," Art in America, May 2008, p. 199–200.
  6. ^ a b Davis, Genie. "Dean Byington's The Theory of Machines," Art and Cake, June 16, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  7. ^ a b c d Smith, Roberta. "Dean Byington," The New York Times, May 6, 2005. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  8. ^ a b c d Zellen, Jody. "Kohn Gallery: Dean Byington," Artillery, June 7, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  9. ^ a b c d e f Roth, David M. "Cassandra Calling," SquareCylinder, December 1, 2022. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  10. ^ a b c d e Moody, Rick, Dean Byington and Griff Williams. Dean Byington, San Francisco: Gallery 16 Editions, 2015. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  11. ^ a b Whitney Museum of American Art. Dean Byington, Artists. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  12. ^ a b Art Institute of Chicago. Dean Byington, Artists. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  13. ^ a b Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Untitled (Fungal Life), Dean Byington, Collection. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  14. ^ a b c Nevada Museum of Art. "Extraction," Exhibitions, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  15. ^ Dalla Villa Adams, Amanda. "Two-Dimensional Exit," Style Weekly (Richmond), January 6, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  16. ^ a b c Ayers, Will. "Byington Explores Underworld At The Frist," The Tennessean, June 28, 2009.
  17. ^ a b Katzen Art Center. "Dean Byington: Buildings without Shadows," American University, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  18. ^ a b c d e Williams, Griff. "Entropy Has No Opposite," in Dean Byington by Dean Byington, Rick Moody and Griff Williams, San Francisco: Gallery 16 Editions, 2015. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  19. ^ a b Yau, John and Gallery Paule Anglim. Dean Byington, San Francisco: Gallery Paule Anglim, 2003. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  20. ^ a b Raynor, Vivien. "In Hartford, Bumptious and Alive and on the Cutting Edge," The New York Times, November 20, 1994. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  21. ^ a b c Ottmann, Klaus. "A Conversation," in Dean Byington: Paintings and Works on Paper, New York: and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, 2007. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  22. ^ a b Pascale, Mark. "Curator’s Choice: Dean Byington,” F Newsmagazine, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, May 2006. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  23. ^ Baker, Kenneth. "Welcome to Yerba Buena's bargain basement of summer shows," San Francisco Chronicle, July 31, 2003. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  24. ^ a b c d Tarshis, Jerome. "Dean Byington at Gallery Paule Anglim," Art in America, December 2003.
  25. ^ Baker, Kenneth. "Dean Byington at Galerie Paule Anglim," San Francisco Chronicle, February 15, 2003.
  26. ^ Panero, James. "Gallery Chronicle," The New Criterion, June 2005. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  27. ^ a b c Indrisek, Scott. "Uncharted Territory," Modern Painters, November 2010.
  28. ^ Frist Art Museum. "Dean Byington: Terra Incognita," Exhibition, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  29. ^ a b c Haefele, Marc. "Dean Byington's ferocious, unruly impulses in a new show at Kohn Gallery," Off-Ramp, KPCC Public Radio, May 23, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  30. ^ Fischer, Jack. "Conjuring Worlds From Bits and Pieces," San Jose Mercury, May 27, 2003.
  31. ^ ArtDaily. " Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape at the Neuberger Museum of Art," June 2, 2008. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  32. ^ a b c d e Falkenberg, Merrill. "Dean Byington," Frieze, April 1, 2008. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  33. ^ Smith, Roberta. "Art Listings: Dean Byington," The New York Times, June 17, 2005. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  34. ^ a b Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Two Harbors, Dean Byington, Collection. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  35. ^ a b c Yau, John. "Invitation to the Labyrinth," Dean Byington, San Francisco: Gallery Paule Anglim, 2003.
  36. ^ a b Juxtapoz. "Dean Byington's Theory of Machines," April 12, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  37. ^ a b c The New Yorker. "Dean Byington," November 26, 2007. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  38. ^ a b 21c Museum Hotels. "Convergence: Highlights from the Collection 2012," Exhibit, 2012. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  39. ^ SquareCylinder. "Best of 2022," December 14, 2022. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  40. ^ Couzens, Julia. "Unconscious Rationale @ Anglim Gilbert," SquareCylinder, August 6, 2022. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  41. ^ Chazen Museum of Art. The Bees and the Ants, #1, Dean Byington, Collection. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  42. ^ The Cleveland Clinic. Power of Art: Cleveland Clinic Collection, Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Clinic, 2017, p. 82.
  43. ^ di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art. Artist List. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  44. ^ New York Art Beat. "Unforgettable: Selections from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection," Exhibition, 2011. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  45. ^ Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. The Bees and the Ants, #2, Dean Byington, Objects. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  46. ^ Indianapolis Museum of Art. Blue Landscape (Jewels), Dean Byington, Collection. Retrieved September 6, 2023.

External links edit

  • Dean Byington official website
  • Dean Byington, Anglim/Trimble
  • Dean Byington, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects

April 13, 2024
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Dean Byington born 1958 is a visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area 1 2 He is known for large hyper detailed mixed media paintings and paper collages of labyrinthine landscapes and invented universes that serve as settings for enigmatic allegories on nature culture time and humanity s effect on the planet 3 4 5 6 Seamless amalgams of images reworked from diverse sources including his own stylized drawings his art evokes fairy tales gone awry the precision of centuries old etchings and cartographic detail and utopian and dystopian science fiction 7 8 9 In 2017 critic Shana Nys Dambrot wrote achieving a profound operatic feat of scale density and clarity Byington s surrealism is that of dreams and memories with an internal logic that unifies Eastern and Western antiquity the consequences of climate change the engineering of urban sprawl and the limited role of culture in making sense of the soul and soil crushing weight of all that civilization 3 Dean ByingtonBorn1958Santa Monica California USEducationUniversity of California Berkeley University of California Santa CruzKnown forPainting works on paper collageWebsiteDean ByingtonDean Byington Theory of Machines Grand Saturn oil on linen 57 5 x 65 2017 Byington s work belongs to the public art collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Whitney Museum of Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago and Berkeley Art Museum among others 10 11 12 13 He has exhibited at the San Jose Museum of Art 10 Nevada Museum of Art 14 San Antonio Museum of Art 4 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 15 Frist Art Museum 16 and Katzen Arts Center 17 Contents 1 Early life and career 2 Work and reception 2 1 Paintings 2003 2010 2 2 Paintings 2011 present 3 Public collections 4 References 5 External linksEarly life and career editByington was born in 1958 in Santa Monica California His parents participated in the Manhattan Project His father an engineer worked at Los Alamos and on the instrumentation at the Nevada test sites his mother was a geologist and served as one of Robert Oppenheimer s secretaries 4 16 18 Byington grew up in Culver City California exploring the full scale outdoor sets of Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Desilu Studios as an adolescent the influence of that experience and his parents history is discernible in various cinematic geological and apocalyptic aspects of his art 2 4 16 18 In 1980 he received a BA and certificate of art from the University of California Santa Cruz He earned an MA and MFA from the University of California Berkeley in 1987 and 1988 1 19 Byington s early works were large photographic assemblages composed by projecting old daguerreotypes of military technologies UFOs and historical events among other subjects piecemeal onto canvas and acetate painted with photo emulsion 20 21 22 During this period he appeared in group shows at the Crocker Art Museum Real Art Ways and Nasher Museum of Art among others and solo exhibitions at Gallery Paule Anglim now Anglim Trimble in San Francisco 19 20 By the early 2000s he had shifted from photochemical methods to a labor intensive process involving collage silkscreening and hand painting that first involved teaching himself to draw in the stylized manner of nineteenth century wood engraving 23 1 With this work he began receiving increased attention through solo exhibitions at Paule Anglim 24 25 and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks Projects in New York 26 1 he has continued to exhibit at both galleries 9 27 In the 2000s he has also had solo exhibitions at the San Jose Museum of Art Frist Art Museum Katzen Arts Center and Kohn Gallery Los Angeles 10 28 17 29 and appeared in surveys at the Nevada Museum of Art de Saisset Museum San Antonio Museum of Art and Neuberger Museum of Art among others 14 30 4 31 A monograph of his work Dean Byington was published in 2015 and includes an original short story and poem by Rick Moody and essay by Griff Williams 10 Work and reception editByington s work mainly consists of large canvases fusing screened oil on linen and hand painting as well as small detailed works on paper composed of tiny hand cut photocopies from old illustrated books and his own drawings 21 He creates the paintings through a meticulous process merging digital and analog and the handmade and mechanical 32 33 8 He photocopies and collages imagery his drawings Victorian era illustrations historical images then works into them to achieve coherence before scanning and silkscreening the work onto canvas sometimes in multiple prints and finally connecting interstices by hand painting details and occasional washes of color 2 1 4 34 The canvases function like enclosures Immersing viewers viscerally in all over compositions that counterpoint the antique quality of the imagery with contemporary painting strategies involving frontality flatness layering and instantaneity 35 2 The work s packed sometimes obscured imagery and unexpected juxtapositions conflicting pictorial and architectural logics natural and human made environments devoid of people animals engaged in human behaviors generate ambiguous narratives that can range from fanciful even romantic to eerie to Cassandra like in their forebodings of apocalypse 5 18 9 2 Critics have connected Byington s art to the intricate works of diverse artists including Hieronymus Bosch Albrecht Durer M C Escher and filmmaker Terry Gilliam the surrealist collages of Max Ernst and Kurt Schwitters and the mid 20th century Bay Area assemblage and psychedelic aesthetic 32 36 27 3 In a 2003 essay John Yau related Byington s use of silkscreening to earlier practitioners such as Rauschenberg and Warhol but distinguished him from them and from appropriation artists by his emphasis on excavating pre photographic sources rather than recontextualizing contemporary mass media images 35 22 In 2017 Griff Williams remarked the disjointed labyrinthine structures of Byington s work may be fueled by the legacy of dark scientific experiments or the artifice of Hollywood s past but they also share sympathy with the Wunderkammer or German cabinets of curiosities which celebrated the intersections between science and superstition the natural and artificial 18 Paintings 2003 2010 edit nbsp Dean Byington Underground 1 detail oil on linen 46 x 42 2006 In the 2000s Byington largely focused on black and white paintings filled edge to edge with detailed renderings of flora fauna and dilapidated ramshackle structures some of them punctuated by washes of jewel like color e g King and Queen 2002 24 7 32 These overgrown scenes were dizzying in their density and perceptually challenging with flattened spaces lacking traditional entry points or clear distinctions between fore middle and background 37 32 noting the images weaving of old and new visual modes critics simultaneously compared their pattern like motifs to ornate wallpaper Chinese scrolls and modernist painting 7 24 37 The seemingly benign scenes were populated with whimsical anthropomorphic animals which upon close inspection were embroiled in sometimes savage conflicts that suggested crises and devastations past and present 24 1 7 John Yau wrote of such works Despite their allusions to the Victorian and Symbolist eras as well as to children s books Byington s paintings are hardly nostalgic In fact these paintings strike me as both visionary and emotionally attuned to the sense of impending disaster that marks our historical moment 35 As the decade progressed Byington pushed the horror vacui sense of density in the work and also began creating color canvasses that suggested mysterious minimalist monochromes in which his signature imagery appeared as if seen through an aquarium or fog e g Underground 1 2006 Waterfalls 2010 5 32 27 The New Yorker described them as glazed in candy colored pink green or robin s egg blue like Easter eggs or blotter acid 37 This work included the green Underground series which featured with geologic forms stalactites stalagmites minerals gems and cave like openings into various spaces 21 Paintings 2011 present edit Writers suggest that Byington s later paintings explore historical and sociopolitical themes in a more expansive cinematic manner in terms of vastness their large scale and God s eye views sweeping subjects climate change terrorism urban sprawl and time a sense of layer centuries of history including the potential future 6 2 38 These paintings blur notions of urban and rural ancient and modern piling intractable ambiguities and compressed distressed and fragmentary realities into monumental landscapes geologic formations and industrial sites suggestive of post human or post apocalyptic possibly alternate civilizations Omphalos 2011 18 29 9 39 SquareCylinder described the maze of cellblock like huts scaffolding and brickwork in the black and white landscape Divided City 2015 as an unending public works project depict ing a mismanaged future an allegory of Big Plans and half starved dreams 40 In his exhibition The Theory of Machines Kohn Gallery 2017 Byington presented nine large paintings of desolate built scenes whose commonalities included skeletal and flayed structures baroque facades the great concentric holes of open pit mines and abandoned machines sprawled in ruin e g Theory of Machines Grand Saturn 2017 29 8 36 Bingham Canyon Mine 2017 offered a striated mining ravaged landscape inspired by photographs of the two largest mines in the world the title mine in Utah and the Grasberg mine in Indonesia rebuilt into a futuristic city part Piranesi part Escher of interconnected bridges towers and scaffold encased structures 8 2 nbsp Dean Byington Oceans Dream Painting 5 oil on linen 67 x 82 2022 Byington s show Cassandra Truth and Madness Anglim Trimble 2022 its title a reference to the Robinson Jeffers poem Cassandra offered a wider range of work depicting the world as a facade teetering on the brink of collapse in the wake of human activity 9 2 The Colossus series 2022 depicted movie sets built on giant scaffolds towering over vast carved out tracts of land 9 Draped in front of the vast sites were curtain like pastoral scenes resembling the romantic paintings of artists such as Frederic Church 2 The effect was a layering of two human constructs idealized landscapes embodying Manifest Destiny that obscured the dark side of American expansionism placed band aid like over the giant open pits of mines a metaphor for the veiling of devastation that political narratives enact 2 In other paintings dystopias invaded cinematic interiors Oceans 2022 depicted a rising tide with a gliding shark swamping an opulent Victorian bedroom 2 Hyperallergic s Gabrielle Selz wrote of the show Drawing on the blast sites of the Nevada desert and abandoned scenery of movies like Citizen Kane Byington s visual language mingles romance and theatricality with the disastrous consequences of climate change and environmental contamination 2 Public collections editByington s work belongs to the public art collections of the Art Institute of Chicago 12 Berkeley Art Museum 13 Chazen Museum of Art 41 Cleveland Clinic 42 di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art 43 Fisher Landau Center for Art 44 Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center 45 Indianapolis Museum of Art 46 Los Angeles County Museum of Art 10 Nevada Museum of Art 14 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 21c Museum Hotels 38 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 34 and Whitney Museum of Art 11 among others References edit a b c d e f Sheets Hilarie M Critic s Pick Dean Byington ARTnews January 2006 p 144 a b c d e f g h i j k l Selz Gabrielle A Devastating and Breathtaking Vision of Climate Change Hyperallergic December 21 2022 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c Dambrot Shana Nys Dean Byington Theory Of Machines at Kohn Gallery WhiteHot Magazine June 2017 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c d e f Rubin David Psychedelic Optical And Visionary Art Since The 1960s Cambridge MA MIT Press 2010 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c Cash Stephanie Dean Byington at Leslie Tonkonow Art in America May 2008 p 199 200 a b Davis Genie Dean Byington s The Theory of Machines Art and Cake June 16 2017 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c d Smith Roberta Dean Byington The New York Times May 6 2005 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c d Zellen Jody Kohn Gallery Dean Byington Artillery June 7 2017 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c d e f Roth David M Cassandra Calling SquareCylinder December 1 2022 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c d e Moody Rick Dean Byington and Griff Williams Dean Byington San Francisco Gallery 16 Editions 2015 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b Whitney Museum of American Art Dean Byington Artists Retrieved September 6 2023 a b Art Institute of Chicago Dean Byington Artists Retrieved September 6 2023 a b Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Untitled Fungal Life Dean Byington Collection Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c Nevada Museum of Art Extraction Exhibitions 2019 Retrieved September 6 2023 Dalla Villa Adams Amanda Two Dimensional Exit Style Weekly Richmond January 6 2015 Retrieved September 7 2023 a b c Ayers Will Byington Explores Underworld At The Frist The Tennessean June 28 2009 a b Katzen Art Center Dean Byington Buildings without Shadows American University 2015 Retrieved September 7 2023 a b c d e Williams Griff Entropy Has No Opposite in Dean Byington by Dean Byington Rick Moody and Griff Williams San Francisco Gallery 16 Editions 2015 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b Yau John and Gallery Paule Anglim Dean Byington San Francisco Gallery Paule Anglim 2003 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b Raynor Vivien In Hartford Bumptious and Alive and on the Cutting Edge The New York Times November 20 1994 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c Ottmann Klaus A Conversation in Dean Byington Paintings and Works on Paper New York and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks Projects 2007 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b Pascale Mark Curator s Choice Dean Byington F Newsmagazine The School of the Art Institute of Chicago May 2006 Retrieved September 7 2023 Baker Kenneth Welcome to Yerba Buena s bargain basement of summer shows San Francisco Chronicle July 31 2003 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c d Tarshis Jerome Dean Byington at Gallery Paule Anglim Art in America December 2003 Baker Kenneth Dean Byington at Galerie Paule Anglim San Francisco Chronicle February 15 2003 Panero James Gallery Chronicle The New Criterion June 2005 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c Indrisek Scott Uncharted Territory Modern Painters November 2010 Frist Art Museum Dean Byington Terra Incognita Exhibition 2009 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c Haefele Marc Dean Byington s ferocious unruly impulses in a new show at Kohn Gallery Off Ramp KPCC Public Radio May 23 2017 Retrieved September 6 2023 Fischer Jack Conjuring Worlds From Bits and Pieces San Jose Mercury May 27 2003 ArtDaily Future Tense Reshaping the Landscape at the Neuberger Museum of Art June 2 2008 Retrieved September 7 2023 a b c d e Falkenberg Merrill Dean Byington Frieze April 1 2008 Retrieved September 6 2023 Smith Roberta Art Listings Dean Byington The New York Times June 17 2005 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Two Harbors Dean Byington Collection Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c Yau John Invitation to the Labyrinth Dean Byington San Francisco Gallery Paule Anglim 2003 a b Juxtapoz Dean Byington s Theory of Machines April 12 2017 Retrieved September 6 2023 a b c The New Yorker Dean Byington November 26 2007 Retrieved September 7 2023 a b 21c Museum Hotels Convergence Highlights from the Collection 2012 Exhibit 2012 Retrieved September 6 2023 SquareCylinder Best of 2022 December 14 2022 Retrieved September 6 2023 Couzens Julia Unconscious Rationale Anglim Gilbert SquareCylinder August 6 2022 Retrieved September 6 2023 Chazen Museum of Art The Bees and the Ants 1 Dean Byington Collection Retrieved September 6 2023 The Cleveland Clinic Power of Art Cleveland Clinic Collection Cleveland OH The Cleveland Clinic 2017 p 82 di 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