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Dean Erdmann, And, Apollo: A Laboratory (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Dario Lasagni. Image courtesy the artist + Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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Dean Erdmann, And, Apollo: A Laboratory (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Dario Lasagni. Image courtesy the artist + Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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Dean Erdmann, And, Apollo: A Laboratory (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Dario Lasagni. Image courtesy the artist + Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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Dean Erdmann, And, Apollo: A Laboratory (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Dario Lasagni. Image courtesy the artist + Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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Dean Erdmann, And, Apollo: A Laboratory (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Dario Lasagni. Image courtesy the artist + Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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Dean Erdmann, And, Apollo: A Laboratory (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Dario Lasagni. Image courtesy the artist + Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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Dean Erdmann, And, Apollo: A Laboratory (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Dario Lasagni. Image courtesy the artist + Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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Dean Erdmann, And, Apollo: A Laboratory (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Dario Lasagni. Image courtesy the artist + Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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Dean Erdmann, And, Apollo: A Laboratory (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Dario Lasagni. Image courtesy the artist + Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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Dean Erdmann, And, Apollo: A Laboratory (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Dario Lasagni. Image courtesy the artist + Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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Dean Erdmann, And, Apollo: A Laboratory (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Dario Lasagni. Image courtesy the artist + Vera List Center for Art and Politics.

Crystallising connections between the personal & geopolitical in Dean Erdmann’s excavations of the Mojave desert

, 16 March 2020

And, Apollo: A Laboratory, a solo exhibition by Dean Erdmann, was on at the Vera List Center For Art and Politics at The New School, New York, running January 16 to February 11.

Dean Erdmann, And, Apollo: A Laboratory (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Dario Lasagni. Image courtesy the artist + Vera List Center for Art and Politics.

With glass sculpture, mixed media and video, the work evoked cultural aspects of the Mojave desert where the artist grew up — from ATVs, the Cold War to meth use — threading a web of surprising historical and technological linkages.  As the press text states: “What might seem to be unrelated histories and cultural expressions, rituals or diseases are distilled into a complex narrative that crystallizes intersections between the deeply personal and geopolitical.”**

Dean Erdmann’s And, Apollo: A Laboratory was on at the Vera List Center For Art and Politics, New York, running January 16 to February 11, 2020.