About
Dean Dablow
Lives in Ruston, LA
Born in Superior, Wisconsin in 1946, he spent his early childhood in North Dakota before moving to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin where he graduated high school in 1964. At 17, he worked several months in Washington, DC not knowing what his future path would be. Visits to The National Gallery of Art after work were pivotal in his decision to pursue the life of an artist. He began study at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point as a painter/sculptor but the camera became increasingly intriguing as a tool to make art. Upon graduation he began graduate studies in photography under John Schulze at the University of Iowa where he received his MFA in 1974 with a minor in sculpture under Julius Schmidt.
Dablow retired from Louisiana Tech University after 31 years of service, first as head of the Photography Program and then taking the reins of the School of Art (renamed The School of Design) as the Director. During his tenure as Director, Dablow was instrumental in establishing the School of Art's study abroad program in Paris. Presently he holds the rank of Professor Emeritus at Louisiana Tech.
He kept his interest in other media alive throughout his career also working in drawing and sculpture. Since his retirement he has returned to painting as his medium of choice.
CV abbreviated
Education
1974 Univ. of Iowa, MFA Photography
1969 Univ. of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, BS Sec Ed
Employment
2007 Professor Emeritus, Louisiana Tech University School of Art
1997-2006 Director, School of Art, Louisiana Tech University
1976-2006 Head, Photography Program, Louisiana Tech University
Grants & Awards
2011 Artist Residence, Colorado Art Ranch
2007 Artist Residence, Jentel, Banner WY
1987 Artist Fellowship, Southern Arts Federation / NEA
1982 Artist Fellowship, Louisiana Division of the Arts
Permanent Collections
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
Baltimore Museum of Art
American University, Washington, DC
Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
Masur Museum, Monroe, LA
Ten photographs in American embassies
Consolidated Paper Company, Port Edwards, WI
Sentry Insurance, Stevens Point, WI
Marine Banks Art Collection, Milwaukee, WI
Solo Exhibitions
2017 “Everything is Abstract,” Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA,
Nov. 28, 2016 -March 11, 2017
installations/paintings/photographs/sculpture
2009 “A Way of Seeing,” South Arkansas Arts Center, Eldorado, AR
paintings/photographs/ sculpture
1999 Photographs, Camera Cases, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville
1998 Prints/Photographs, Levee Gallery, Monroe, LA
1991 "Rocks on a Flat Plane", Southeast Louisiana University,
Hammond, LA
1990 Photographs, Light Fantastic Gallery, Michigan State
University,East Lansing, MI
1990 Photographs, SUNY College at New Paltz, New York
1989 "Rocks on a Flat Plane", University of Arkansas at Little Rock
1987 "Ritual Sites", Stoner Art Center, Shreveport, LA
1987 The Photograph Gallery, Tarrant County Community College,
Dallas, TX
1984 Photographs, Austin College, Sherman, TX
1984 Photographs, Carol Lowenstern Gallery, Houston, TX
1984 Photographs, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
1983 Photographs, Bry Gallery, Northeast Louisiana University,
Monroe, LA
1982 Photographs, Project Art Center, Cambridge, MA
1982 "Recent Color," The Craft Alliance, Shreveport, LA
1981 Photographs, Camera Cases, The University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, AR
1980 Photographs, Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College,
Amarillo, TX
1980 Photographs, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
1979 Photographs, Talley Gallery, Bemidji State Univ., Bemidji, MN
1979 Photographs, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
1977 Photographs, Sarah Reynolds Gallery, Univ. of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
1975 Photographs, Cedar Rapids Art Center, Cedar Rapids, IA
1975 Photographs, Nexus Gallery, Lexington, KY
1974 Photographs, Bergstrom Art Center, Neenah, WI
Publications / Reviews
2013 American Art Collector: Juried National Competition, 2013,
Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA, October, 2012 one painting
2008 Studio Visit, two paintings published in juried national
magazine, Carl Belz juror, Open Studios Press, Boston
2001 Author, The rain are fallin: A Search for the People and Places Photographed by the Farm Security Administration in
Louisiana, 1935-1943, Scrub Jay Press, Tollhouse, CA,185pp.
1998 Review, St. Louis Post–Dispatch, September 20, by Jeff
Daniel, p. C3
1993 Photograph “Sunstone” shown on "CBS Sunday Morning" news
program as segue, New York
1988 Louisiana Photographers: Landscapes, Contemporary Art
Center, New Orleans, LA
1986 A Century of Vision: Louisiana Photography 1884–1984, edited
by Herman Mhire, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
1983 Photographic Artists and Innovators, Turner Browne and Elaine
Partnow, MacMillan, New York, 1983
1977 Creative Camera International Yearbook, Coo Press, London,
England, (four photographs)
1981 “Camera”, (September) C.J. Bucher, Ltd., Lucerne, Switzerland