d e s e a n

CONTACT

511-8988 Hudson Street
Vancouver, BC
V6P 6Z1

Email: desean [at] telus [dot] net
Web portal: http://kimono-designs.com/desean
Online art portfolio: www.sfu.ca/~dhumphra/portfolio/portfolio.html
Resumé in Education: www.sfu.ca/~dhumphra/portfolio/resume-ed.html

DISCIPLINES | MEDIUMS

VISUAL | NEW MEDIA | GRAPHIC ARTS
Earlier: graphic art and design, clay and leather modelling, weaving, silkscreen printing, bookbinding, photography, drawing, watercolour, calligraphy, computer graphics and animated multimedia presentations, multimedia responsive environments, digital virtual reality panoramas, 3D graphics, website design and programming.

Current: analogue and digital photography and alternative processes, printmaking, book design and publishing, poetry.

CREATIVE WRITING
Poetry (French and English), short stories.
Handbound limited edition poetry books.
Print on demand book design and publishing.
Translation: French to English; English to French.

 

EDUCATION | TRAINING

• 2009
  o Book Design Intensive, Peter Cocking, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.
• 2007
  o Master of Arts - School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Faculty of Applied Science, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, BC.
• o Master's thesis: sensate skins: Unfolding an affective responsive aesthetics (4.7 MB PDF).

1999
o Contemporary Chinese Brush Painting, Andy Lau, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.

1986
o Art of Bookbinding, Celia Bender-King, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC.

1985
o Celtic Knotwork, Aidan Meehan (Correspondence course), Vancouver, BC

1984
o Papermaking, Tootsie Pollard, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.
o Commercial Design and Decorating Certificate, Northern College of Applied Arts and Technology, Kapuskasing, ON.

1983
o Mask-Making, Rae Anderson, Sir Sanford Fleming School of Fine Arts, Haliburton, ON.
o Serigraphy, Normand Fortin, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.
o Design, Clément Berini, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.

1982
o Clay Pottery and Sculpture, Maurice Gaudreault, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.
o Raku Pottery, Monique Ferron, Canadore College, North Bay, ON.
o Life Drawing, Bryan Maycock, Canadore College, North Bay, ON.

1981
o Drawing and Watercolour, Jean Bénédek, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.

1980
o Visual Arts, Ministry of Education, Kapuskasing, ON.
o Music and Flute, Ministry of Education, Kapuskasing, ON.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2009
• o Body Pulses, Plates to Pixels, online at http://www.platestopixels.com/bodypulses.htm (International Juried): digital photography.
• o Celebration of SFU Authors, WAC Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC (Invitational): published books.
• 2004
  o second skins, New Forms Festival: Technography, Roundhouse Exhibition Hall, Vancouver, BC. (International Juried): haptic responsive installation.
  
  • Process journal on the installation.
• 2000
  o inter><faces: our visages ... nos visages, online at http://www.kimono-designs.com/interfaces/faces.html: digital panoramas and interactive web gallery design.
  

1992
o Digital Images, JG's, Kapuskasing, ON.: digital prints.

1986
o The Mask, Cartwright Gallery, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC. (National invitational): kinetic leather mask installation.

1984
o Miniatures, Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Centre des Jeunes, Sudbury, ON. (Provincial invitational): miniature leather masks.
o Visions du masque, Paquin Gallery, Centre des loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON. (Provincial invitational): kinetic leather mask installation, leather masks, photographs.
o Réflexions franco-ontariennes, College Park, Toronto, ON. (Provincial juried): kinetic leather mask installation
o Kap Art, Paquin Gallery, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.: leather masks
o Reflet du Nord, Cité des Jeunes, Kapuskasing, ON.: leather masks
o Masks, Beaver House Gallery, Alberta Culture, Edmonton, AB. (National invitational): leather masks and body mask.
o Poignées nordiques, Paquin Gallery, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.: xerographic installation.

1983
o Réflexions, Paquin Gallery, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.: multi-media installation.
o Hallowe'en Masks, Creeds Boutique, Toronto, ON. (Provincial invitational): leather masks.
o Masques, Visions 222 Gallery, Centre culturel francophone, Toronto, ON.: clay masks. Ontario Crafts Council's Northern Region Exhibition, Centre culturel La Ronde, Timmins, ON. (Regional juried): woven fibre mask.
o Ontario North Now Pavilion, Ontario Place, Toronto, ON.: porcelain masks.
o Kap Art, Paquin Gallery, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.: clay masks.
o Salon du livre canadien, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.: porcelain masks.
o Festival 2 X 4, Gallery 815, Hearst, ON.: clay masks.

1982
o Kap Art, Paquin Gallery, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.: clay masks, ink and acid drawings.
o Summer Show, Paquin Gallery, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.: clay masks, watercolours.
o Group Show, Visions 222 Gallery, Centre francophone, Toronto, ON.: clay masks.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006
o sensate skins: responsivity in the folds, Simon Fraser University i-Lab blackbox, Surrey, BC: haptic responsive installation.

2003
o kine[s]kins, SFU Alexander St. Studios, Vancouver, BC: collaborative responsive installation.
o skinaesthesia, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, BC: haptic responsive installation.

1983
o Fantasmagorie nelliganienne, La Galeruche Gallery, Centre culturel La Ronde, Timmins, ON.: porcelain mask installation.

1982
o Noir, Paquin Gallery, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.: clay masks, ink/acid drawings, kinetic copper stabile and mobile.

AWARDS | GRANTS

1983
o Merit Award, Ontario Crafts Council Northern Region Exhibition, Timmins, ON.

1982
o Ontario Arts Council Materials Assistance Grant.

CREATIVE WRITING

• Online Print on Demand Book Publishing, flutterbook press, Vancouver, BC (available at blurb.com)
  
  • o e spaces (2009): poems, illustrations.
  • o iro 色 (2009): poems, illustratiions.
  • o Clay (2009): short story, illustrations.
    o joys of the cut sleeve 斷袖之樂 (2009): poems, illustrations.
  • o cosmochromes (2009): poems, Cibachrome photos.
  • o interfaces (2009): writing, poems, photos.
  • o my eyes touch (2009): writing, photos.
  • o masks portfolio masques (2009): masks, writing, poems.
  • o kimono (2009): kimono designs, poems.
    

Literary Magazine

o Rauque: Revue de création, No 1 (Automne 1984), Éditions Prise de parole, inc., Sudbury, ON: Leather masks
o Rauque: Revue de création, No 5 (Automne 1986), Éditions Prise de parole, inc., Sudbury, ON: Poems

Handmade flutterbooks, flutterbook press, Vancouver, BC: Limited edition, accordion-style booklets containing original poetry, short stories and graphics.

o flutters (1996): 10 tanka poems, 14 digital drawings, 18 pages
o one hundred smiles (1996): 5 love poems, 5 digital drawings, 8 pages
o cinquains: five-liners on four-letter themes (1989): 18 cinquain poems, 10 pages
o pools of blue neon rain (1989): 1 poem, 1 digital drawing, 6 pages
o with a flutter of wings (1988): 1 free verse poem, 1 digital drawing, 5 pages
o iro | colours (1987): 3 free verse poems, hand marbled covers, 12 pages
o Clay (1987): short story

Handmade Limited Edition Books of Poetry

o e spaces (1987), flutterbook press, Vancouver, BC: handmade limited edition (25) book containing 25 original poems (each in French and English), 19 ink drawings, colour frontispiece, handbound in Japanese style using Japanese papers and ribbon tie.
o quelques lambeaux... (1983), Kapuskasing, ON: handmade limited edition (21) book containing 41 poems (in French), silkcreen print on leather, hand marbled endpapers and sliding leather mask tie.

ACTIVITIES | PROJECTS

2008-2011
o Co-editor and designer, flutterbook press, Vancouver, BC & Moonbeam, ON: book design and publishing of artist books on the visual works and writing of Mary Weymark Goss and desean.
flutterbookpress.blogspot.com

1999-2010
o Co-owner of a greeting card business, kimono designs, Burnaby, BC: creation of original designs for die-cut greeting cards in the shape of Japanese kimono; publishing, marketing, international sales distribution of greeting cards and framed cards.
www.kimono-designs.com

2000-2001
o Instructional/visual designer and producer (in both French and English) of online multi-component Resource Evaluation Kits for use by the Curriculum Branch, Ministry of Education, Victoria in remote training of teacher-evaluators throughout the province; these kits each comprised 14 activities, a user guide, appendices, an interactive electronic resource evaluation module and a journal; programming and design of the html interface for CD-ROM.

2001
o Co-organizer of an online exhibition, inter><faces, on the theme of the mask, involving the participation of 10 Canadian and international artists: coordination; online facilitation, website design and programming in both French and English.
www.kimono-designs.com/interfaces/faces.html

2000
o Website designer, Tojo's Restaurant: initial concept design for commercial website.

1998
o Website designer, flutters: design and programming of website showcasing short poetry and digital art in both French and English.
www.sfu.ca/~dhumphra/flutters/flutters.html

1991
o Coordinator/Instructor, French-Language Computer Multimedia Week (Mission: Vancouver), involving 9 highly able students from district francophone and French Immersion elementary schools; group projects focused on creating original interactive multimedia presentations using graphics, animations, sound, music and text; Student Services, Vancouver School Board.

1990
o Researcher, writer, graphic designer and page layout of an 80-page teacher resource document to accompany an animated film, Jours de plaine, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (Montréal) in collaboration with the Ministries of Education of the four Western provinces.

o Co-instructor - Gifted Pilot Project, involving the use of computers with a group of 12 elementary school students; individual and group projects focused on creating interactive multimedia presentations using original graphics, animations, sound, music and text; Student Services, Vancouver School Board.

o Co-instructor - Gifted Learner Summer Program, involving the use of computers with 120 students from K-7 in creating graphics and animations; Student Services, Vancouver School Board.

o French translator of a teacher resource guide to accompany an educational video, Les dinosaures, produced by KIDSVIDS, Vancouver, BC.

1988-1996
o Owner of a small company, Imagine Designs, doing freelance work in writing, translation, proofreading (both in French and in English), desktop publishing, graphic design (business cards, logos, graphics), computer animation.

1988
o Researcher, writer, graphic designer and page layout of a 132-page teacher resource guide to accompany a collection of four French-language videos, Franc-Ouest, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (Montréal) in collaboration with the Ministries of Education of the four Western provinces.

1983-1984
o Artistic Director, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.: in charge of monthly gallery exhibitions, arts and crafts workshops for children and adults, community theatre group, entertainment series, 4 artists in residence, special artistic and cultural programs, administering Ontario Arts Council grants to regional artists, preparing applications for grants to provincial and federal government agencies, preparing evaluation report with recommendations for future program orientation.

1983
o Co-writer, designer and illustrator of a teaching resource to accompany Les yeux en fête, an anthology of Franco-Ontarian poetry and stories produced by Le Centre Franco-Ontarien de Ressources Pédagogiques, Ottawa, ON.

1982-1983
o Artist-in-residence, Centre de loisirs culturels, Kapuskasing, ON.: studio work (stoneware, porcelain, textile, metal and leather sculptures, drawings and watercolour, photography, serigraphy), solo and group exhibitions (local, provincial and national), poetry and bookbinding, art workshops for children.

PRESS | MEDIA

1982
o L'ébauche d'une nouvelle carrière. AG. (mars 1982). Le Nord. Kapuskasing, ON.

o Nos indiscrétions. (mars 1982). Vivre et créer. Centre régional de loisirs culturels. Kapuskasing, ON.

o Nos indiscrétions. (avril 1982). Vivre et créer. Centre régional de loisirs culturels. Kapuskasing, ON.

1983
o Deux expositions pour Dennis Humphrey. (février 1983). Le Nord. Kapuskasing, ON.

o Viens faire un tour à La Galeruche. (février 1983). Le Bulletin. Centre culturel La Ronde. Timmins, ON.

o Something different. (August, 1983). The Daily Press. Timmins, ON

o Teacher quits, finds new life making masks. Staff reporter. (September, 1983). The Daily Press. Timmins, ON.

1984
o The imaginary becomes real in Dennis Humphrey's masks. Paula Lovquist. (February, 1984). Northern Times. Kapuskasing, ON.

o Expressions franco-ontariennes. (septembre 1984). L'Express de Toronto. Toronto, ON.

o Visions of masks displayed. André Queneville. (October, 1984). Northern Times. Kapuskasing, ON.

o How they see it. (October, 1984). Northern Times. Kapuskasing, ON.