Art event # 1

Melisa Dean is the new art instructor at St Mary's. Her art concerns consumerism and she seems to mainly focus on items in stores Target and Ikea. Dean sort of criticizes the way that people buy too much stuff or that they buy items that they really don't need like the example she gave of the big contraption that boiled eggs that people were buying when all they had to do was boil water in a pot. Dean also made it clear that in some way it is okay to buy a lot because people seemed to be proud of the large amount of things they purchased just as people who bought very little were proud. She showed in her work through layering the items that people were buying that the more busy the layering and drawing got the more the person bought and obviously if they bought very little the items in the picture would be clearer to the eye and the drawing would be less busy. the layering is repetitious and she also sets up some bought items or even pictures of people as they buy in patterns. Her work to me plays upon psychological disorders such as agoraphobia and kleptomania. Agoraphobia is fear of the market place and kleptomania is compulsive shopping and Dean does watch people and their actions when shopping and how much they buy to use as an expressive or a commentary type of art form.