Kevin Daly Primary Medium: Paint Other media: Installation, Film / Video, Drawing Keywords: Abstract, Conceptual, Geometric, Cartoon, Social

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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. I recently read a quote of Dan Graham's where he referred to his work as “anarchistic humor”. I think this is how I see my work.





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

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