Electric Avenue finished up Dean’s art website in early 2010. Dean wanted to showcase his art and to have a strong ecommerce platform for sales. We hooked him up with a custom WordPress installation based upon the fabulous Thematic theme frameword. We also used a suped-up custom version of Instinct’s Ecommerce plugin.
Dean Tomasek was born in Chicago, Illinois and spent his childhood in Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming, before moving to Nashville, Tennessee on his eighteenth birthday. His passion for art and music was evident at an early age, and also fueled his adult life, as he played bass and painted anything to make ends meet.
“I paint mainly from photographs, and I painstakingly try to bring out the true essence of the subject. If it’s a musician I’m painting I will listen to that artist obsessively, read interviews, and look at dozens of photos. By the time the piece is finished, I’m pretty much an expert on that subject.” Simple as it sounds; Dean’s art is beautiful and understated, relying on a few carefully chosen colors, one of them usually being black. The sheer loneliness of his abstract landscapes is stunning. His portraits live and breathe in a ghostly encomium, and his study on nature, stark and slightly eerie.
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