Dreams Fade Fast

Dreams Fade Fast

Cover | Dean Hunsaker

Dreams Fade Fast (15″ x 20″ acrylic on mahogany panel). Painted in 2016 by Berkeley artist Dean Hunsaker, Dreams Fade Fast is from the series of paintings Musical Chairs, which reflect on the recent economic crisis. In naming the series of paintings after the children’s game of the same name, Hunsaker calls attention to the gamed economy in which many people lost so much. All of the paintings in the series feature decomposing vacant chairs in various compositions. Musical Chairs is a traveling exhibition that has appeared in galleries and museums in Berkeley, El Cerrito, Eureka, and Reno, Nevada. In 2017, Hunsaker will be a resident artist at the Chalk Hill Artist Residency in Sonoma during the wine harvest season where he will be developing a new series of paintings centered on viticulture. See more of his work at www.DeanArts.com. He can be reached at dean@deanartscom.


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Faces of the East Bay

In the Philanthropic Swim

In the Philanthropic Swim

Rockridge residents John Bliss and Kim Thompson may live far removed the gritty flats of East and West Oakland. But this philanthropic couple see themselves as one with the citizens of Oakland, particularly those who are struggling financially, and they’re leading a campaign to get their “financially blessed” peers to invest in the community like they have by funding city programs to teach kids how to swim.