Stephen Dean
Stephen Dean is a French American artist based in New York City. His time-based works, installations, and watercolors summon physiological and anthropological approaches to color. Often working from existing forms or events, Dean focuses on the immediacy of color and its ability to precede language and cultural codes.
Preferring the company of like-minded artists and writers, Poussin kept his distance from courtly intrigues and the structures of power. Yet the monarchy eventually caught up with him: Louis XIII crowned him premier peintre du roi, a title he relinquished two years later. History, however, would make him the undisputed sovereign of classicism.
