Royce Deans
Royce Deans is from Chicago, IL and has lived and worked in northern Michigan since the 1980s. A graduate of the American Academy of Art in Chicago, IL, Royce teaches classes to all ages in painting, drawing and printmaking locally, as well as Western Europe and Israel where he has presented classes, workshops and retreats. He has maintained open weekly figure drawing sessions for the past 10 years, and currently offers them online enabling him to work with models and artists across the US and around the world. He is a painter and a printmaker. He is represented by AES Gallery, Chicago, IL; Hudson Gallery, Sylvania, OH; Main Street Gallery, Leland, MI. His work is held in private and corporate collections worldwide.
Grace I
Oil on panel
24" x 24"
Artist Statement
Royce Deans' work revolves around a passion for forms of nature, specifically the human figure and trees, responding to the similarity of the mass and structure of these two subjects. Divisions and overlapping layers within the work represent interactions of the subject and how each inhabits space. An evolution from initial gestural drawings distills into structure and form in paintings and monotypes. Working within the parameters of life-long protanopia (color blindness), Royce uses a structured platform to facilitate predictable interactions. In his work, he walks a careful line maintaining color fully visible to his own eyes.
At Tusen Takk
Royce explored form and color in relationship to the human form and elements of nature, using them in silhouette to reduce them to their symbol state: harmonies of color, dissonance of color, repetition of form, and combinations of line and solid shape.
Due To
Oil on canvas
30" x 24"
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