Students at Texas A&M University-Commerce are now able to view new art as local artists Ambrea Dean and Max Fields have recently collaborated to host a showing of their work in the Wathena Temple Art Building opening Nov. 30.
“This is my first solo show,” Dean said. “It’s still a group show, but it’s a much smaller group of people – me and Max – as opposed to six or seven people. It makes me feel like people are able to grasp [my work] more since it’s not grouped with a variety of work.”
Dean describes her works titled “The Field” as a project focused on a field that she was repeatedly raped in as a child.
“I was systematically raped for the totality of my childhood and that field was one of the places I was taken for punishment, and raped in,” Dean said. “My purpose was to gain a feeling of bravery through re-approaching the areas of my life that I have kept most hidden.”
For Fields – whose works titled “Digital Mass” – this opening is an opportunity to expose the campus community to art of a different style.
“This was the first time I’ve shown my work on campus,” Fields said. “I chose to show here because I really wanted to show the campus work that they might not have been exposed to before. For this installation I used a web cam and ran it through a theatrical software that is made in the same vein as Photoshop; it has no bounds. I manipulated imagery in real time, changing things until I liked the result. It’s a fun but tedious process.”
Although the two did not work together on their art, there was much consideration taken into account when the decision to collaborate was made.
“Max and I have talked about collaborating for a while because our work is very similar,” Dean said. “I think his work is amazing and innovative. Max has a way of taking newer technologies and applying them today versus traditional art forms.”
While their works will be on display until the end of the semester, Dean will also be showing more of her work in 500x in Dallas.