Dean Anthony Brink - About Dean Anthony Brink, Biography, Exhibitions and More

Biography
I paint to engage the otherness inherent to being in the world: the canvas provides limits needed, whereas writing poetry spills through its loopholes in all directions. I long for a place where everyone wants to understand the person who is different, not the person who is the same. My mother, an artist and my inspiration, was an immigrant from Europe to America, and now I am an immigrant to Taiwan. I am currently beginning a series using the phrases “no safe spaces” and “no safe words” to explore tensions in the presence of others in public contexts, building on recent works exploring “safe spaces” in gyms and steam rooms. I sometimes invoke Star Trek imagery as a complicated symbol both of hope and of heterotopian encounter.
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Event: “Postcolonial Noninterference Directive” within The Sixth Fuel Factory Documenta 2025: Tracing the Origin of the Sixth Fuel Factory along the Touqian River

Dates: 2 Jun 2025 - 19 Jul 2025

Venue: The National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Arts Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Eleven of my works were featured in a section of a larger documenta exhibit in 2025, gathering 11 of my works under the title “Postcolonial Noninterference Directive” within The Sixth Fuel Factory Documenta 2025: Tracing the Origin of the Sixth Fuel Factory along the Touqian River, NYCU Library, curated by Wendy Lai (June 2, 2025 – July 19, 2025).

Event: “No More UFOs” Solo Exhibition by Dean Brink

Dates: 19 Oct 2024 - 1 Dec 2024

Venue: Home under the Big Chimney, Hsinchu, Taiwan

The paintings in “No More UFOs” are reflections on being a citizen in an age of neocolonial danger. I associate UFOs with “Deus ex machina,” referring to divine interventions in Greek theater, where gods were mechanically suspended in the air to resolve intractable problems. As Taiwanese, we confront such impasses, and deciding our future ourselves is in effect our responsibility, not the purview of outside forces (UFOs). These paintings explore the dynamics of a small country threatened by complex neocolonial forces. They reflect the contradictions we face in attempting how forge our sensus communis.

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Event: “Postcolonial Noninterference Directive” within The Sixth Fuel Factory Documenta 2025: Tracing the Origin of the Sixth Fuel Factory along the Touqian River

Dates: 2 Jun 2025 - 19 Jul 2025

Venue: The National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Arts Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Eleven of my works were featured in a section of a larger documenta exhibit in 2025, gathering 11 of my works under the title “Postcolonial Noninterference Directive” within The Sixth Fuel Factory Documenta 2025: Tracing the Origin of the Sixth Fuel Factory along the Touqian River, NYCU Library, curated by Wendy Lai (June 2, 2025 – July 19, 2025).

Event: “No More UFOs” Solo Exhibition by Dean Brink

Dates: 19 Oct 2024 - 1 Dec 2024

Venue: Home under the Big Chimney, Hsinchu, Taiwan

The paintings in “No More UFOs” are reflections on being a citizen in an age of neocolonial danger. I associate UFOs with “Deus ex machina,” referring to divine interventions in Greek theater, where gods were mechanically suspended in the air to resolve intractable problems. As Taiwanese, we confront such impasses, and deciding our future ourselves is in effect our responsibility, not the purview of outside forces (UFOs). These paintings explore the dynamics of a small country threatened by complex neocolonial forces. They reflect the contradictions we face in attempting how forge our sensus communis.

Biography

I paint to engage the otherness inherent to being in the world: the canvas provides limits needed, whereas writing poetry spills through its loopholes in all directions. I long for a place where everyone wants to understand the person who is different, not the person who is the same. My mother, an artist and my inspiration, was an immigrant from Europe to America, and now I am an immigrant to Taiwan. I am currently beginning a series using the phrases “no safe spaces” and “no safe words” to explore tensions in the presence of others in public contexts, building on recent works exploring “safe spaces” in gyms and steam rooms. I sometimes invoke Star Trek imagery as a complicated symbol both of hope and of heterotopian encounter.