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Dan Dempster: STATEMENT

Deep Seeing

"In this age of information overload, I curate that rarest and most elusive commodity: peace of mind. Through drawing, painting and sculpture, it has been my practice to point out the spectacular in the mundane. Pointing out the spectacular in the mundane, I teach how to see.


When we look deep into detail, subject and scale become irrelevant. Contemplating this paradox creates a crack in our façade of certainty about identity and meaning. Opened, it is possible to catch a glimpse of things as they are, rather than what we think. We are compelled to pay attention, to unknot our minds and wake up. 


Seeing past concept and category, the mind opens to clarity and vastness; the boundaries between artist, subject, artwork and viewer dissolve. Whatever is created in this state is imbued with it. Through the window of such work, the viewer is drawn to share that state. That is the art of seeing."


- Dan Dempster, CA

38x36" oil on canvas. Private collection.

Dan Dempster: Biography & C.V.

Dan Dempster, CA

Dan Dempster (b. 1963, Montreal) is a professional Copley Artist member of the Copley Society of Art, Boston (1879). "With the acceptance of his oil painting to the 2018 Copley Society's Winter Members Show: In the Style Of, juried by Tom Kellaway, Editor of American Art Review, Daniel became a Copley Artist. Achieving this status is a mark of excellent technique, hard work ethic, and superb artistry." *


Having grown up in Bermuda, lived in Toronto, New York, Miami, Boston, and Los Angeles, he has finally settled in the Colorado mountain town of Pagosa Springs. All Dan Dempster's explorations in drawing, painting and sculpture are based on deep familiarity with nature. His particular interest is studying the vastness revealed in the close observation of detail.


He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and Sheridan College. He has been a professional artist for thirty years, showing in New York and abroad, and has taught figure drawing for many of them. 


His weathered sculpture was shown in New York by Fulcrum Gallery SoHo from 1994-2004. His work has been selected for exhibition in eight Bermuda National Gallery Biennials, the Bienniale Museo de Arte Moderno, St. Domingo, ten juried exhibitions at the Copley Society of Art, the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, won Best Painting at the New Hampshire Institute of Art Biennial and Best in Show at the Bermuda Society of Arts, and is in the collections of the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art, HSBC Bank of Bermuda, Swiss Re and other private collections.


His philanthropic activity includes work selected for the British Red Cross Society "Art for Humanity" auction in London and the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy, among others. 


*Copley Society of Art press release.


Education


1989 DCA, (magna cum laude) Sheridan College, Ontario

1988 BA, University of Waterloo, Ontario


Professional Memberships & Appointments

 

The Springs Resort, Pagosa Springs, CO. Artist In Residence

Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA. Copley Artist (CA)

Bermuda Arts Council. Treasurer

Bermuda Society of Art. Vice President.

Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art. Fellow, Artist In Residence


Selected Solo Exhibitions


2022 Hot & Cold, Fast & Slow, The Springs Resort, Pagosa Springs, CO

2015  Mullions & Moonlight, Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art

2008 Tidepools: Fractal Shallows, M2L, Boston, Massachusetts

2005 Sky, Sand & Sea, Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art

1998  Waterworks, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, D.C.

1998  Ithuriel, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

1997  Bermuda Shallows: Drawings, Nicholas Lusher Fine Art, Bermuda

1997  Timewrack and Tide, Fulcrum Gallery SoHo, New York

1997  Waterworks, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia

1996  Ithuriel, Bermuda Society of Arts, Hamilton, Bermuda

1996  Iron Moss, Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art

1996  The Water Planet, Fulcrum Gallery SoHo, New York


Selected Group & Juried Exhibitions


Bermuda National Gallery Biennial, Hamilton, BDA since 1994 (8)

Fulcrum Gallery SoHo, New York, NY from  1994-2002

Copley Society of Art, Newbury Street, Boston, MA since 2008 

Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art since 1996


2020 Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? Invitational. PVFL, Palos Verdes, CA

2020 Regional Showcase, National Watercolor Society, San Pedro, California

2019  Fantastic Voyage, Art Directors Guild Gallery 800, NoHo Arts District, CA

2019  Summer, Palos Verdes Art Center, California

2019  Art Unites 12, Art Directors Guild Gallery 800, NoHo Arts District, California

2018 Copley Society of Art, Boston, Massachusetts

2018  Not always So, The Loft, San Pedro, California

2017  Winter, Palos Verdes Art Center, California

2016 Bermuda National Gallery Biennial

2016  Summer, Palos Verdes Art Center, California

2015  St. George's, Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art

2015  South Bay Focus, Torrance Art Museum, California

2009 Get the Lead Out 2, Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art

2009 Biennial 2009, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH

2008 Copley Society of Art, Boston, Massachusetts

2006 Bermuda National Gallery Biennial

2005 Art for Humanity, Red Cross Art Auction, London, England

2004 Bermuda National Gallery Biennial

2003 Art: New Genre, Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda

2002-1994 Fulcrum Gallery SoHo, New York, NY

2002 Bermuda National Gallery Biennial

2001 Julie Coash & Dan Dempster, Burnaby Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda

2000 Bermuda National Gallery Biennial

1998  Sculpture: 3D, Charles Sumner Museum, Washington, D.C.

1998 Bermuda National Gallery Biennial

1996  3rd Bienniale, Museo de Arte Moderno, St. Domingo

1996 Bermuda National Gallery Biennial

1994  Dempster, Fugate-Wilcox & Kobayashi, Fulcrum Gallery SoHo, New York, NY

1994 Bermuda National Gallery Biennial


Publications/Press


The Bermuda National Gallery Biennial 

Catalogues. Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda.

1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2016

Dan Dempster "Timewrack & Tide" new works of copper, steel and zinc 

Fulcrum Gallery SoHo, 480 Broome Street, Broome & Wooster, New York, NY 10013.
Dan Dempster: "Waterworks" 

ISBN 1-886845-03-4. Softcover, 20 pages, 12 colour plates, essay by Peter Barton. Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Affiliate of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, P.O. Box 6438, Newport News, VA 23606.
3rd Bienniale of Painting of the Carribean and Central America 

Catalogue. Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo. Catalogue.
New York Contemporary Art Galleries 

Renee Phillips, Manhattan Arts, New York, NY.
Guide to Galleries, Museums and Artists 

Art in America.


Copley Artist

Dan Dempster (b. 1963) since 2008 has been a member of the Copley Society of Art, Boston (1879). "With the acceptance of his oil painting to the 2018 Copley Society's Winter Members Show: In the Style Of, juried by Tom Kellaway, Editor of American Art Review, Daniel became a Copley Artist. Achieving this status is a mark of excellent technique, hard work ethic, and superb artistry." - Copley Society of Art press release.


Above: Tiddlywinks, 36x60 oil on canvas. Portuguese Bend Beach Club 

Rancho Palos Verdes, California

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