From ‘the life she’s living’

“Flesh Forms” (plaster of paris with encaustic), by Providence-based artist Angel Dean,  in her “Flesh, Flora, and Flux’’ show, in the Providence Art Club’s Castelnovo Gallery, through Oct. 5.

Her artist statement says:

“Angel Dean is an artist who mainly works with encaustic media. Her work is personal and unconventional. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, Dean makes work that is the by-product of the life she’s living.’’

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up & get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part & a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.”

—- Chuck Close