Kevin Daly
C W O S ARTIST
Primary Medium: Paint
Other media: Installation, Wall drawing, Mixed media
Tags : abstract, conceptual
MANIAC
Neighborhood : New Haven: Erector Square
Email: aminoblaster (at) live (dot) com
Website: http://kevindaly.us
Artist Statement
I am interested in the relationship between desire and necessity, the clashing of the ideal and the actual. The inadequacy of a rationalist program of structuring a culture in constant flux results in its having to constantly revise, regroup, and accommodate.
My work is an expression of this dialectical nature of culture. The recent work consists of large-scale paintings that use the whimsical vernacular of pop culture within the context of the Modernist tradition of geometric abstraction. The stripe/check patterns and colors function formally, but are also socially ubiquitous. The process is precise and methodical, but the compositions are awkward and unresolved. The paintings are ironic in a sense, but they are not cynical. They are a celebration of the human within the rational.
Other media: Installation, Wall drawing, Mixed media
Tags : abstract, conceptual
MANIAC
Neighborhood : New Haven: Erector Square
Email: aminoblaster (at) live (dot) com
Website: http://kevindaly.us
Artist Statement
I am interested in the relationship between desire and necessity, the clashing of the ideal and the actual. The inadequacy of a rationalist program of structuring a culture in constant flux results in its having to constantly revise, regroup, and accommodate.
My work is an expression of this dialectical nature of culture. The recent work consists of large-scale paintings that use the whimsical vernacular of pop culture within the context of the Modernist tradition of geometric abstraction. The stripe/check patterns and colors function formally, but are also socially ubiquitous. The process is precise and methodical, but the compositions are awkward and unresolved. The paintings are ironic in a sense, but they are not cynical. They are a celebration of the human within the rational.
Selected Works
|  Sam n' Ella - 2011 - vinyl, acrylic - 50" X 60"  Sam n' Ella - 2011 - vinyl - 50" X 60" installation, Manic Episode 2; Hit By the Eidolon, Brickhouse Gallery, Sacramento, CA  MANIAC - 2011 - mixed - variable MANIAC is Multi-media, Artist, Network, Idea exchange, And Collaboration. Art is about the exchange of ideas, and this is often mediated through an institutional venue like a gallery, school, or publication. My goal for this group is to provide a vehicle for artists to share thoughts about each others work, discuss current topics informing art, work collaboratively in creating works of art, and to curate/install shows (Manic Episodes). Check us out on Facebook  Trigger Happy (installation view with Steven Baris) - 2011 - vinyl - 50" X 60" approx installation view w/ Steven Baris. Manic Episode 2; Hit By the Eidolon, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA  My Little Machine Gun - 2009 - Acrylic on canvas - 84X72  Bad Ass and the Vaseline Touchdown - 2009 - acrylic on canvas - 84X72  Mother, Jugs, and Speed - 2008 - Acrylic on canvas - 50" X 93" |
Artist Bio
MFA, Hunter College, NY,NY, Combined Media
BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA, Painting
Parsons School of Design, NY,NY, Communication Design
Additional Information
Erector Square, Building 7, 1st Fl