# N O B L A N K B R A I N S
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Kristofir Dean is a painter based in Hamilton, Ontario.
He holds a BFA from OCAD University and has shown
his work internationally. He is currently represented
by Ian Tan Gallery in Vancouver, Newzones in Calgary,
Gallerie Bloom in Montreal, and Art Interiors in
Toronto. Kristofir's art activates a conversation about
the quality and value of saturated colours to lift the
energy of a space and the people who inhabit it.
BRAIN REFRACTION
By Kristofir Dean
Artist Statement
This sculpture depicts a painted colour illusion which makes a flat object look
dimensional. The design is similar to the artist's Refraction series of paintings,
which play with light and shadow, perspective, shape and line. The flat brain
shape lends itself well to refraction with its tapered areas. Colours begin
along the edge, broaden in the centre and fade out much like some thought
processes, dreams and memories.
