Joseph Dean is a visual artist from Santa Barbara, California, who now lives and works in San Pedro, California. He works primarily with oil paint on canvas.
He enjoys investigating the thresholds between abstraction and representation.
Through his work, Joseph seeks to express solidarity and to commiserate with nonhumans caught in a complex web of human-made circumstances.
Dean cites artists such as Cézanne, Picasso, Bacon, Dubuffet, and Tobey among his influences

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