How Artist Dean Allison Captures the Human Condition in Glass
Glass Artists in Residence - The Henry Ford
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In August 2019, Dean Allison spent a week as artist in residence at the Glass Shop in Greenfield Village. Dean Allison works with figurative sculpture and portraits with glass. He begins with a life cast from a model. The final portrait, made in cast glass expresses the fragility and transparency of the human experience through a medium that inherently captures those qualities. The work is a document, a three-dimensional photograph that examines preconceptions and perception towards individuals. While most of his work is cast and utilizes molds, Allison is experimenting with a new body of work that focuses on the human figure on a smaller scale.
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