The Chambers Project Announces The Opening of Roger Dean & Freyja Dean’s – THE SECRET PATH

GRASS VALLEY, CA

The Secret Path is a spectacular exhibition of visionary paintings by beloved artists Roger Dean and his daughter Freyja Dean. Iconic Roger Dean is a spectacular artist whose work is dear to an immense audience of imaginative people. He is especially famous for his Yes album covers, and for inspiring the world of the movie Avatar. 

The Secret Path is an invitation to take a journey into other worlds. Roger Dean is at the peak of his abilities – his recent paintings are superb, and he has found a well-earned place in the history of art. His recent canvas, The Quest, is an enigmatic and exotic landscape, but it is also warmly familiar. An alien sun rises over a mysterious landscape of organic granite formations, dotted with pines. A distant mountain range fills the horizon, catching golden light over blue snow. The middle ground is a wash of blues and purples about a strong outcrop of wind and water weathered stone. One of Dean’s signature Monterey Pines frames the sky, and enormous fungal succulents cap a cliff in the foreground, supported beneath by a flying buttress resembling a watching figure. Enigmatic, half-formed, suggested and uncertain, the stone-man gazes over the landscape and is simultaneously part of it – this is a gaze of wonder and harmony, and the painting tells the story of a transcendent moment of unity shared between human and environment. 

Dean said, “I loved the idea of a Secret Path that cannot be found and is not susceptible to navigation but is reliably there, provided, it is not looked for. There are absolutely no limits, no boundaries.”

Why should people follow the secret path? Dean explains, “To access the most effective, the fastest and the most powerful parts of our brains, a way of expanding consciousness.”