TRANS LUX                       — Peter Frank, Art Critic
"In her Trans Lux series Dean Andrews focuses down onto, and into, a realm where picture transfers over into object.

The compact presence of these paintings and their granular, subtly lustrous surfaces divert attention away from what is composed on their faces and towards their physical presence. They are not supports for imagery, but for a material facture that at once tells the eye everything about itself and fools the eye into thinking there is more.

In this, Andrews explores a realm of perceptual elision proposed by fellow southern California artists in which the principal tenet of minimalism – what we see is simply what we see – is subverted by the vagaries of sight – what we see never stays the same.

Minimizing her compositional and coloristic strategems in the Trans Lux paintings, Andrews maximizes their active presence in our visual comprehension. They don’t quite disappear, but they do modulate in the presence of different light sources and different contexts of display.

These inert objects do not sit still for a second."




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