March 11, 2025

Flower KABOOM! Paintings by Albert Dean

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Visit The House of Borrego Springs West Gallery for Flower Bomb cocktails and ARTTALK with painter Albert Dean on Saturday, March 22 at 3:00 pm.

After days and nights of cloud precipitation, rain and the right temperatures and wind here in the Anza Borrego Desert, the unexpected flowers are about to bloom. KABOOM!


Plan to partake of the desert's wildflower beauty and visit The House of Borrego Springs West Gallery for Flower Bomb cocktails and ARTTALK with painter Albert Dean on Saturday, March 22 at 3:00 pm.


Albert Dean
 is an American artist born in 1934. He creates abstract and representational paintings with oil, acrylic paints and digital methods.  Albert was born in McPherson, Kansas where he lived until he enlisted in the U.S. Army after finishing high school.  He served as combat medic during the Korean War. Upon his release from the Army, he attended the University of Colorado and University of Denver.  He majored in chemistry, mathematics and physics while working full time as a research technician.  He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and began his professional life working as a computer programmer.  Albert spent the next thirty years working as a computer engineer and programmer, specializing in communication systems and data base management systems. In 1990, Albert returned to university and earned an MFA in painting from East Carolina University School of Art.  He spent the next fifteen years teaching computer art and graphic design at colleges and universities in North Carolina.  Albert retired in 2016 and moved to Borrego Springs, California. 


He recently relocated to Jamul, California where he now works in his studio and paints full time.  He is an exhibiting member of the Borrego Art Institute, the La Jolla Art Association and the San Diego Art Association.


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