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RESUMÉ
DEAN
ARLEN
#1 Liberty Homes,
St. Johns Extension Road,
Email: dean_arlen@yahoo.com
Tacarigua
Sculptural Play-Space Project-Catalogue
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page –
The
Paint Installation Project-Catalogue
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OBJECTIVES :
To make art-design, sculpture in urban, rural spaces.
EXPERIENCE: 2016-
The Toxic Form Project –
(In development) is the
presentation of paintings and sculptures which will tell the tales of the human
form in negotiating the urban landscape
2016-2017
ongoing
The Heights of Aripo
Project – Designing around value-added
Collaborators – Aripo Youth Group, Aripo Village Council, University of
West Indies, UWI, Geography Dept.
The
intention with this project is to create a sustainable development
understanding within the village centered around design. The first step being a
participatory mapping exercise, which will evolve into deeper conversation
around design centered development.
2016-2017
The East Morvant Playspace Project
Client – Member of Parliament for Morvant – Adrian Leonce
Collaborators
– University of West Indies, UWI Engineering Dept.
This
project focused on designing around memory. This was guided through interaction
with the children and adults living within the community. The designs, were
then developed further, by UWI, Engineering MFA student, Darrien Charles.
2016
The La
Horquetta Edible Playspace Proposal
Client-Councilor Kwasi
Robinson, Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation.
The edible playspace was
designed to develop a space that operates both as a natural playspace and micro
sustainable agricultural project, based within the Phase-5 neighborhood of La
Horquetta.
2014.
Friday 17 October
The Tacarigua Sculptural
Play-Space Project – Official Presentation, Trinidad and Tobago, Hilton Hotel,
La Boucan Meeting Room. Here the project was presented to the national
community for conversation and support.
2013.
January 17 – 7 February.
The Paint Installation Project – Installation of 10 paintings and the 12 posters at Medulla Gallery,
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, The Caribbean.
2012
THE URBAN
HEART BEAT PROJECT – Initiated by the Goethe
Institute and the German Embassy – Was the installation of 9
Artists artworks in city of Port of
Spain Trinidad and Tobago.
The final presentation being in Berlin,
Germany.
Catalog title – De Mi Barrio A Tu
Barrio, Street Art in Mexico,
Central America and the Caribbean.
2011
The AlterEgo Project- Is the solo presentation of 15 art-design pieces of furniture. Built in
Trinidad & Tobago and reflecting a Caribbean design philosophy, at the
Scrip-J Building, 1 Fernandes Industrial Centre, Laventille, Port of Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago
2011
The Re-human Seat- A seat designed and built for the International Conference - New
Geographies, Studies in Postcoloniality and Globalization hosted by the
Department of
Liberal Arts & Institute of Gender and Development Studies,
The University of the
West Indies, St. Augustine Campus,
March 24-26.
2011
We the Artists- A
group show of the work of local and international artists curated by Nicollette
Ramirez.
Installed at the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad
And Tobago, January 5th-26th.
2010
One Day
Symposium – Art, Design and Architecture –
New Perspectives on Caribbean
Practice, organized in collaboration with the Department of Creative
and Festival Arts, UWI St. Augustine Campus; a component of the UWI Sculptural
Project 2007.
2006-2009
The
University of West Indies Sculptural
Project
Curator of the project
that presented seven artists sculptural proposals to UWI management. I also managed
the installation of one of seven sculptures designed as part of the UWI
Sculptural Project, outside the Main Library, UWI, St. Augustine Campus.
2008
The Red Earth Festival:
Built and presented the installation - The Deprivation Chamber at
this An Eco Art Festival, Trinidad and Tobago.
2008
Erotic Art Festival – Installed, a poster installation entitled “Trans” at Drink Wine Bar,
Woodbrook, Port of Spain. Trinidad and Tobago. The festival took over several
spaces in the Woodbrook community.
2007
Convener of The UWI
Sculptural Project,
2007
Solo exhibition: The Capetown
Chronicles Installation, Museum of the City of Port of Spain, Fort San Andreas. Was the installation of street
posters, bringing the streets into the Museum space.
2006
Art residency programme
(3months) at Greatmore
Studio, Capetown South
Africa & Closing Exhibition Entitled Chutney Jam.
Bottom
Line Exhibition, A drawing show of 13 artists
held at the Cotton Tree Foundation, St. Ann
2005
Several Group shows held
at Eddie Bowen’s Studio
2004
Worked on several
independent projects, one of
which was to establish my own company, DArlen
Ltd.
2003
Installation
“Red Devil Tail” at Co-Sign, a project of Basso Leonard Architects
Collaborative (BLAC), Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
2002
Mi Casa Yo Casa – Plans
for Resettlement –
An installation of
drawings and sculpture, CCA7, Contemporary Art Gallery, Laventille, Trinidad
and Tobago
“The House of Hervé
meets the House
of Dean” – A
Collaborative installation with
French artist Hervé Chambon, Fort Andreas Museum, Port of
Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
2000
Assistant to
the prop master on the film The Mystic Masseur, a film
by Merchant Ivory
Productions.
Annual
Exhibition, Trinidad and Tobago Art Society.
1999
Big River
1999 International Artists Workshop - one of
twenty two artists from Trinidad and Tobago and
around the world
- Caribbean Contemporary Arts(CCA7), Grande Riviere, Trinidad and
Tobago.
Gestures: An Installation - first solo
exhibition, installed at the
National Museum of
Trinidad and Tobago
Meridian
International Exhibition, USA. Traveling
exhibition to several US States.
1998
Division of
Gender Affairs, Ministry of
Culture and Gender Affairs, Government
of Trinidad and Tobago and Shebang
Media, USA -
Conceptualizing videos with
other artists -
1997
Mural project: the
paddock walls, Queens Park
Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Design
and construction of sets for video, AVM
Studios, Morvant, Trinidad and
Tobago.
1996
Trinidad
and Tobago Art
Society, Annual Exhibition
1992
“Dean & Zoya” Exhibition,
Eddie Bowen studio .
1991
Design artist: Crossover Design
Ltd.
Young
Artists Exhibition ,
Aquarela Galleries
1990
Art
Dept., Trinidad and Tobago
Printing and Packaging Ltd.
1989
Trinidad
and Tobago Art Society Annual Exhibition,
Central Bank, Port of Spain .
Visual Arts Environment
Exhibition, Gallery 1234
EDUCATION
1994-1996
Ontario College
of Art and
Design, Toronto, Canada.
1991-1993
Creative
Arts Centre, Faculty of Arts & General Studies, The
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus.
1986-1998
Craftsman’s Diploma
in Jewelry Design &
Production, John Donaldson Technical
Institute, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago .
1979-1983
Fatima College (Secondary School).
AWARDS
1997
First prize - Inter
American Development (IADB)
Bank Design Competition .
1994
Commonwealth Fellowship
to the Ontario
College of Art and
Design, Toronto, Canada .
FUTURE PROJECTS
2016
AND BEYOND
Setting
the goals to develop a multi disciplinarian studio, inclusive of art, design,
video and farming.
ARTICLES
Report from the Sunday
Guardian – Dean Arlen: Big doodles, Big Ideas - http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2013/01/report-from-the-sunday-guardian-dean-arlen-big-doodles-big-ideas/
Taking art and design
to the public - http://digital.guardian.co.tt/?iid=107550#folio=110
Design, Architecture in
our space – http://www.guardian.co.tt/archives/features/life/2010/09/27/design-architecture-our-space
Torture & Pleasure
Heartbeat in the
Barrio: Caribbean and Central American Street Art - https://repeatingislands.com/2012/05/09/heartbeat-in-the-barrio-caribbean-and-central-american-street-art/
CRB – Boon generation –
Christopher Cozier -
http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/crb-archive/11-february-2007/boom-generation/
The diplomacy of Art http://www.guardian.co.tt/lifestyle/2013-07-04/diplomacy- art
Dean Arlen
