FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

{CTS} creative thriftshop is very excited to announce that we will be hosting Jeremy Dean's big drive through Central Park on Monday March 8th 2010 from 10-1pm. This amazing work will be pulled by a pair of beautiful white draft horses (aptly named Duke and Diesel and will drive through New York City passing through Central Park & Columbus Circle.

We are inviting all of you to come out and support this project, see it in action, it will be well worth it. A lucky handfull of people will get to ride inside while we ask others to please line up along the route and show your support. Information and fan bags will be given out at the meet location 69th St and Central Park West at the former Tavern on the Green.

Dean has taken a gas guzzling 8 mile-per-gallon HUMMER H2, a symbol of extravagance, and converted it into a working horse drawn cart. Dean has pimped it out with silver chrome, working LED lights and a booming audio and video system. He calls this piece the “CEO Stagecoach.”

We were introduced to Jeremy in April 2009. He came to us with a small box and a big idea. At a time when most of us are scaling back, easing off the accelerator petal, and hunkering down, Jeremy Dean ask us to dream really, really, BIG.

After a dozen or so false starts and meeting that went no where with directors, foundations, non for profits, car companies, city agencies, and media companies we decided just six weeks out from Armory Art Week, that it was now or never. That we get this done now or it may never happen. With acceptance letters from from all the major art fairs in New York in hand we decided for us and our program what Jeremy wanted to create was a challenge in every way and CTS loves a challenge.

Just 6 weeks later when we first got to stand before the finish piece, we were floored. It really does stand as testament to American ingenuity and gumption and that go big or go home sentiment that every artist hopes to beat. We hope this piece will act as a marker... a place holder in our collective time line to remind us never to stray too far from what we care about the most.


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about the artist: Jeremy Dean has built a reputation for exploring the American dream and human progress through art. Deconstructing and re-contextualizing iconic symbols of power and wealth, his work addresses social, political, economic and cultural issues.

about the gallery: {CTS} creative thriftshop is quality art on the move. Championing provocative content driven work by local and international mid-career, underrepresented, and emerging artists in all media. Our goal is to build an infrastructure that knows no boundaries, one that carries the torch of modernism acting as a vehicle for dreamers, a cultural meeting place for great minds, an international community of inter connectivity and expandability.

special thanks: Slicks Garage (Palmetto, Fl.), Cedar Knoll Farms (Lisbon, Ct), Storage Plus (Brooklyn, Ny.) and to All Our Family And Friends. Without you all this would have never happened and for that we are very grateful. It was an honor and a pleasure.

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