David Coon Primary Medium: Photography Other media: Found material, Installation Keywords: Architecture, Conceptual, Documentary, Historical, Landscape | Add to favorites |
Artist Statement
Charles Olson – or was it Melville? – said that America has replaced history with geography. What makes for boredom, which in America can be so violent, is the unfilled urban space. In contrast to Europe or Asia, which are stuffed to overflowing, in the United States the population density per square kilometer is very low. Whence those depressing suburbs, depressing because one can always find a parking space. In America one feels not solitude but isolations.
Charles Dantzig, - “Liste des Americains”
“Ingenuity (or Necessity) may be the mother of invention, but poverty is definitely the father”
- Lewis Ziska, Researcher of weed ecologies for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
1631 State Street, New Haven - 2009 - Photography - 12"x16"
Igeslia Pentacostal El Nuevo Pacto, 142 Humphrey St., New Haven - 2008 - Photography - 12"x16"
Thomaston, CT - 2008 - Photography - 12"x16"
Q Bridge - 2009 - Photography - 12"x16"
Winchester Repeating Arms Plant, Across Munson Street - 2009 - Photography - 12"x16"
Tire Center - 2008 - Photography - 12"x16"
Krauser's Food Store, 1959 State Street, Hamden, CT - 2009 - Photography - 12"x16"
Abandoned Caddilac, Jet Cleaners - 2009 - Photography - 12"x16"
Brownstone Restaurant, Hamden CT - 2008 - Photography - 12"x16"
Lighthouse Point - 2009 - Photography - 12"x16"
Wild Rose - 2009 - Photography - 12"x16"
Mom's Indian Kitchen, 1348 State Street, New Haven CT - 2009 - Photography - 12"x16"
Markman TV, 1935 State St., Hamden CT - 2008 - Photography - 12"x16"
8 Acres 4 Sale - 2009 - Photography - 12"x16"
Dwight, Illinois - 2008 - Photography - 12"x16"
Little York, Illinois - 2008 - Photography - 12"x16"
The Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, State Street - 2009 - Photography - 12"x16"
NYC, New Years Eve - 2008 - Photography - 12"x16"
New Haven, Towards Simkins' Industries - 2008 - Photography - 12"x16"
Atlas Street, New Haven - 2009 - Photography - 12"x16"
Artist Bio
DAVID A. COON
Biography
1968 - Born at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland USA
Raised in suburban Washington D.C. by scientists employed by the U.S. Government
1991 – B.A. in Architecture from The Pennsylvania State University
1992 to Present – Employed as professional Architect in New Haven, Connecticut
Exhibitions
2005 – “A Deck of Found Playing Cards” Installation for CWOS, New Haven, CT
2005 – “Unsolicited Poetry: SUBJECT: Dictum Hustle” Installation for the John/Jane Project at ArtSpace Gallery, New Haven, CT
2006 – “A Deck of Found Playing Cards” and “Fruit Stickers” Installation for Moxie-The CWOS Showcase at Yale Univ. Art School, Green Gallery. Exhibition was curated by Jodi Handel of EXITart, NYC
2006 – Participant, “Collective Industrial Arts” Installation for CWOS, New Haven, CT
2007 – “The Amazing Beeramid!” Installation for “Loud”, a juried exhibition at Arts + Literature Laboratory, New Haven, CT
2007 – “Bully Business Cards 1-6” Installation for “Dreams, Memory, and Sleep”, an invited exhibition at Haskins Laboratory, New Haven, CT
2007 – “The Santa Fe Trail” Installation of 30 color photographs for CWOS, New Haven, CT
See my website: Jawboneofanass.org or Flickr.com, Username: “Twolaneblacktop”
2008 – “Architects Taking Pictures” Photography Group Show, New Haven, CT
2009 – “Built” Photography Group Show, Guilford Art Center, Guilford CT
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