D*Face

D*Face

D*Face

  • Biography

    As one of the UK’s most prolific street artists, D*Face (Dean Stockton) has been at the forefront of his practice since his initial breakthrough in 2005. Having grown up amidst the streets of London, he cultivated a keen interest in graffiti art and its disaffected mindset from an early age. As a teenager his artistic attentions turned to skate culture and the iconic skate deck designs of Jim Phillips and Vernon Courtlandt Johnson that he found in Thrasher Magazine. Inspired by their punk DIY aesthetic, D*Face attended an illustration and design course before beginning work as a freelance artist. Taking the public domain of the street as his canvas, he blended art, design and graffiti in a manner that pre-dated the emergence of street art as it is known today. Here the artist gained a great deal of attention, quickly rising to fame for the vivid nature of his designs. Despite now working in the gallery as well as the open canvas of the streets, D*Face continues to approach his work with the same anarchic energy that drove him to begin his career from the outset. His vibrant pop style and D*Dog logo have become synonymous with British street style and are recognised the world-over.
    Working across a host of mediums and techniques, D*Face employs a family of dysfunctional characters to ridicule and hold to ransom all that falls into their grasp - a welcome jolt of satirical subversion in today’s media dominated environment. His ambition is to encourage the public eye not just to ‘see’ but to carefully consider the surroundings of the day-to-day, and society’s increasingly bizarre fascination with celebrity culture and mass consumerism. By rethinking, editing and subverting imagery drawn from decades of materialistic consumption - currency, advertising and comic books, the artist transforms these now iconic motifs, figures and genres in order to gain new insight into today's conspicuous society. Describing his work as aPOPcalyptic, D*Face seeks to pick up where the masters of 80s American Pop left off - to establish a very real, albeit tongue and cheek criticism of our consumer dominated world.

    Alongside having worked with the likes of Shepard Fairy and Banksy, D*Face has also collaborated with Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II on a project that involved the customisation of banknotes and coins and their secret reinsertion back into public circulation. In 2005 the artist was also commissioned by the Vatican to produce a portrait in commemoration of Pope Benedict XVI’s instatement. The piece was shown for the first time at the Outside Institute in May 2005, as well as on MTV Rome to great critical acclaim. In recent years, as well as the famed Blink-182 cover, D*Face continues to work closely with cultural icons, most recently having designed and hand painted a series of unique custom motorbikes in collaboration with the prestigious British motorcycle company, Triumph. As a lifelong Motorbike enthusiast, this was an opportunity of great personal significance.
    On top of solo exhibitions, global mural commissions and a host of secret projects, D*Face also runs his own London gallery, ‘StolenSpace’, which hosts numerous sell out street art exhibitions on an annual basis. In more recent years he has also begun a new venture into motorbike design with his ‘Rebels Alliance Motorcycle Company’, similarly based in London’s east end. With so much in the works, it's hard to say what's next in store for one of the UK’s most eminent street artists.

    ‘D*Face is one of Britain's leading "newbrow" artists, and damn if he isn't as sharp and clever - if not quite as surreptitious – as Banksy (and sharper and cleverer by half than Damien Hirst.)’ – Peter Frank, senior curator at the Riverside Art Museum and art critic for Angeleno Magazine.'

    Source: D*Face Studio

  • Exhibitions

    Solo Exhibitions:
    Social DIScontent, Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, October 2019
    Home Is Where The HeART Is, Treason Gallery, Seattle, August 2018
    Fornever. Galerie Itinerrance, Paris, April 2018
    Happy Never Ending. Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, September 2017
    Misprints & Misfits. StolenSpace Gallery. London. April, 2016
    Wasted Youth. CAC, Malaga Museum of Contemporary Art. Spain. June, 2015
    Scars & Stripes. StolenSpace/PMM.Hollywood, Los Angeles. September, 2014
    Honestly Dishonest, Above Second Gallery. Hong Kong. May, 2014
    New World Disorder, StolenSpace Gallery, London. June, 2013
    Burn Brighter. Metro Gallery. Melbourne. November, 2011
    Going Nowhere Fast. Corey Helford Gallery. L.A. April, 2011
    All Your Dreams Belong to Us. Jonathan Levine Gallery. NYC. September, 2009
    aPOPcalypse Now. London, 2008
    D*Arm/RockFace. 24SF/Upper Playground. San Francisco, May, 2008
    Eyecons. O’Contemporary. Brighton. UK. April, 2007.
    Death & Glory. Stolenspace gallery. London. October, 2006
    Trajan Bar. Stockholm, 2003

    Group Exhibitions
    426m² : The Southbank Show. StolensSpace Gallery. April 2018
    The Reasons For The Seasons. StolenSpace Gallery. December, 2015
    LAX / LHR. StolenSpace Gallery. September, 2015
    ‘Freedom’ a Group Show. StolenSpace Gallery. June, 2015
    Spectrum: Winter Group Show. StolenSpace Gallery. November, 2014
    Love / Hate Group Show. StolenSpace Gallery. February, 2012
    StolenSpace Christmas Group Show. London. December, 2011
    On Every Street, Group Show. Samuel Owen Gallery. Connecticut. October, 2011
    Goss-Michael Foundation Gallery, Group Show. Dallas. 2011
    Corey Helford Gallery 10 Year Anniversary Show, Los Angeles, June, 2011
    Summer Group Show. StolenSpace Gallery. London. June, 2010
    Nu Art. Stavinger, Norway. August, 2009
    D*Face x Shepard Fairey . Gallerie Magda. Paris. September, 2008
    Under a Red Sky. Summer Group Show. StolenSpace Gallery. London. June, 2008
    White Noise Paper Works Show. Black Rat Press. London. February, 2008
    Urban Art Auction. Bonhams. London. February, 2008
    Fresh Air Smells Funny. Osnabrück Museum. Germany. January, 2008
    The Streets of Europe. Jonathan Levine Gallery. New York. December, 2007
    White Noise. Black Rat Press. London. November, 2007
    Nu Art. Stavinger Museum. Norway. September, 2007
    Stick ‘em up - stickers - Magma, London April, 2001
    Groups Show Leonard Street Gallery, London. July, 2007
    Summer Group Show. StolenSpace Gallery. London. June, 2007
    Wooster Collective Spring Street Project. NYC. December, 2006
    Santas Ghetto. London. December, 2006
    Ice Hotel, Ice Suite creation. November, 2006
    Urban Funke, Group Show, Barcelona May, 2006
    UK Jack, OK! - A celebration of British style, Dover Street Market, London April, 2006
    UK Jack, OK! - A celebration of British style, Colette, Paris February, 2006
    7th Day - Group show, Pimp, December London, 2005
    Santa’s Ghetto - group show, December London, 2005
    Pictures on Walls - group show, Allmanna Galleriet Stockholm September, 2005
    Adfunture Invasion - Introducing D*Dog, Pixie, Taipei September, 2005
    Adfunture London - Introducing D*Dog, Outside Institute, London August, 2005
    A Few of our Favourite Fiends - group show, Outside Institute, London May, 2005
    Urban Funke - Finders Keepers group exhibit, Barcelona May, 2005
    Santa’s Ghetto - group show, December London, 2004
    Finders Keepers - group show, Hinterconti Gallery, Hamburg August, 2004
    Hollywood Remix Show - group show, Wooster Collective, New York
    Love - Finders Keepers group show, Montana Gallery, Barcelona July, 2004
    Native Weapon - Group Show, July, 2004
    Trick or Treat Motherfucker - Dreambags Jaguar Shoes, London October, 2002

  • Website

    dface.co.uk

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