Dean Allison works with figurative sculpture and portraits with glass. He begins with a life cast of a subject. The final portrait, made in cast glass expresses the fragility and transparency of the human experience through a medium that inherently captures those qualities. The work is a document, a three- dimensional photograph that examines preconceptions and perception towards individuals. Studio Artist, Pittsburgh PA. Resident artist, Penland North Carolina, 2015-2018. Master of Art, Visual Arts in Glass, Australian National University, 2010. B.S. in Studio Arts, Illinois State University, 2001. Selected teaching: The Glass Furnace in Istanbul, Turkey; Bullseye Glass Co in Portland, Oregon; Pittsburgh Glass Center. Selected exhibitions: SOFA Chicago, Scope Miami, Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, and Tacoma Art Museum. Collections include Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI., The Julie Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, AL., Hinson Art Museum, Wingate, NC., Imagine Museum, St. Petersburg, FL.
