The Sweepers, a new conceptual art exhibition of the work of acclaimed animation leader and multi-media artist Marge Dean. Using satire, each piece is built around the same concept: What would a world where housework is valued as much as Fine Arts look like? How would that change our perception of women and sustainability?

  EXHIBITION DETAILS 

   Exhibition on display February 28 to March 15

   Exhibit location: 210 East Main St. Alhambra CA, 91801.

  FREE Admission. No RSVP needed. All ages welcome

   Artwork will be available to Patreon members for early online presale on February 27. See our Patreon for more details.

   Artwork will be available to the general public online on February 29 at 12:01 AM PT.

  New art work will be on display and available for sale.

 SIGNING / RECEPTION 

• Marge will be available for signing during opening reception
• February 28 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM PT
• FREE admission

  ABOUT MARGE DEAN

Marge Dean studied art at the UC San Diego Visual Arts Department in the 1970s, a hotbed of conceptual and performance artists, as well as experimental film and video makers. She worked with Eleanor and David Antin, Martha Rosler, Alan Sekula, Louis Hock, Stan Lawder, Manny Farber, and Jean-Pierre Gorin.

To support her family, Dean later entered the entertainment industry, working in television animation. In art school, Marge Dean learned to look through the world rather than at it, developing a lasting fascination with the conceptual constructs of everyday life. In entertainment, she learned how to tell stories and engage audiences by connecting with what matters to them in the moment.

Marge Dean has had a long and successful career in animation, contributing to significant projects alongside remarkable artists, though her role has largely been the facilitation of other people’s creative visions. This exhibition marks a return to where Dean began—to her early aspirations—combining insights from her fine art training with decades of experience in entertainment to articulate a personal vision, and perhaps to influence how viewers see the world.

 ABOUT THE SWEEPERS

"The Sweepers" is a group show of the mid-century housewives who made up the Floor Field Cleaning movement, a style of abstract housework that emerged in New York that marked a decisive turn in the history of modern domestic abstraction.  Its defining characteristic was the expansive, unbroken clarity of stained or soaked linoleum, in which dirt was divorced from its context and cleanliness itself became the subject.Figures such as Marcia Rothko, Clyffie Still, Barette Newman, Robin Motherwell, and Maura Lewis each developed variants of the field idiom.Ultimately, Floor Field Cleaning sought to strip domestic practice of unnecessary rhetoric, presenting the floor as a unified, monolithic surface.