Dean Bloodgood (b. 1934, Pomona, CA) received his B.F.A from the University of Texas at Austin in 1958 and his M.F.A in Painting from the University of Southern California in 1960. He taught for a year at the University of Illinois before becoming an Instructor of Art at Oklahoma State University in 1964. By 1966, he was an Assistant Professor of Art, and in 978 Bloodgood became an Associate Professor. Since 1961, Bloodgood’s work has been the subject of over 15 one-man shows across the United States, including exhibitions at the Witte Museum, San Antonio; the Paul Plummer Gallery, U.S.C; Gardiner Gallery, O.S.U.
Bloodgood’s work has been exhibited in over 40 competitions and invitational shows including the Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin; the Pasadena Museum of Fine Arts; the Los Angeles County Art Museum; the La Jolla Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Art.
His paintings and drawings have also been exhibited in numerous university museums: The Krannert Art Museum; University of Illinois; Syracuse University Art Gallery; Tulsa University’s Alexandre Hogue Art Gallery; Wichita State University’s Ulrich Museum of Art and others.
Bloodgood’s work is in the State Art Collection, Oklahoma City; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; the Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman; and in numerous private collections.
“My interests in art involve attempts to find the transcendent in the everyday. Simplification, a freezing of time, silence, analogies, visual parallels, metaphors and abstracted reality are the major elements I search for as a painting develops. A ‘dumbness’ of design and a gestural quality are formal elements that seem to repeat in my work. I do not want a narrative element in my work so I try to minimize premature interpretation. If a piece works, I find out upon completion what it’s about.” - Dean Bloodgood