Stephen M. Da Lay has met the requirements for the Marjorie Schiele Prize. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1989, and his work has been shown nationally and internationally. Stephen’s work has been exhibited at 2nd Penang International Print Exhibition 2010 Exhibition Date 9/16 - 10/15, 2010. Contact: RAHMAN MOHAMED, School of the Arts ,Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang. He also exhibited at Nuevos Aires/New Winds, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was a symposium entitled Lithobaires´09 , an international project for professional artists and professors produced and organized by Proyecto´ace, curator Alicia Candiani, 07/22 through 08/02, 2009. Along with showing in Buenos Aires, the work is part of Proyecto´ace. Four lithographic prints of Mr. Da Lays are in the permanent collection. Another venue in which Mr. Dalay’s works were exhibited was Portfolio Exchange that was organized by Jeff Sippel with The University of Alabama in Huntsville 2010 which included 18 artists. Moreover, Mr. Da Lay was published in New Art Examiner, Vol. 18 , No. 8, 04/1991, Pg. 39 Carol Ferring Shepley, article about “A One Scroll Show”, Maryville University.
Pentahedrices is a melding of two types of 3-dimensional imagery that I have been working on for the last 5 years using polyhedrons and pentacubes. The inspiration for using these objects came from the alphabet and number blocks. Work will encompass a variety of framed and hanging images on the wall used as support ideas to explain the main sculpture on display. The sculpture’s main idea is to explain the interdependency of relationships from nature, business, religion, and personal relations.
The sculpture will be constructed with two materials and separated, one part of the image will be laying on the floor and made from black high density foam rubber and in the shape of a cross that is represented in a painting by Salvador Dali entitled, "Crucifixion" (aka "Corpus Hypercubus"). The size of the hypercube will be 6ft. high x 9ft. wide x 12ft. long. Hanging suspended directly over the cross will a pentacube in a shape that will be an interlocking form constructed with white ripstop material and a metal frame to make the object a bit ridged to help give it shape. Its size will be 6ft. high x 9ft. wide x 9ft. long.
The framed images mentioned will be created using a variety of printmaking techniques from serigraphy, woodcuts, and waterless lithography. This meaningful dialogue between people and ideas is crucial to viewing objects and hanging images. The museum patrons are invited to discover each piece individually and as a group. Abstract marks, representational images, and organic patterns cover the faces, vertexes and edges of the polyhedrons and pentacubes.
My inspiration came from looking back at childhood symbols including letters and number blocks. The polyhedrons are constructed from fundamental shapes starting with the Platonic Solids. I have been drawn to mathematics and how numbers make and predict patterns including symmetry that involves balance. The colors in the double helix that define DNA strands and coded messages can be found in my images. Lately, famous quotes using ciphers to create coded messages, along with plain text have been used to convey my ideas to the viewer. Quotes from Jesse Ventura, Dr. Seuss, W. C. Fields, Thomas Mann, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Mother Teresa
can be found hidden and yet in plain ( and also plane) view.
The artists’ work that have been inspirational to me are cave art for its primitive mark making, Odilon Redon for his spirituality and color, Giorgio deChirico for his metaphysical evolutionary thinking, Frantisek Kupka for his color, mark making, and the evolution of his art, and Jim Sanborn for his use of words in his artwork. Books that have affected my work are by Carl Jung, “Man and His Symbols”, Mario Livio, “The Golden Ratio”, Fred B. Wrixon, “Codes”, Gyorgy Doczi, “The Power of Limits”, and Andrew Robinson, “ Lost Languages”.
The artist will be available by phone or email to answer any questions concerning all aspects of this project.
I look forward to speaking to you soon.
Sincerely, Stephen M. Da Lay 314-630-4236 dalay@sbcglobal.net dalays@umsl.edu www.blackfishstudio.com 7239 Murdoch Ave. Shrewsbury, MO 63119
Stephen M. Da Lay has met the requirements for the Marjorie Schiele Prize. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1989, and his work has been shown nationally and internationally. Stephen’s work has been exhibited at 2nd Penang International Print Exhibition 2010 Exhibition Date 9/16 - 10/15, 2010. Contact: RAHMAN MOHAMED, School of the Arts ,Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang. He also exhibited at Nuevos Aires/New Winds, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was a symposium entitled Lithobaires´09 , an international project for professional artists and professors produced and organized by Proyecto´ace, curator Alicia Candiani, 07/22 through 08/02, 2009. Along with showing in Buenos Aires, the work is part of Proyecto´ace. Four lithographic prints of Mr. Da Lays are in the permanent collection. Another venue in which Mr. Dalay’s works were exhibited was Portfolio Exchange that was organized by Jeff Sippel with The University of Alabama in Huntsville 2010 which included 18 artists. Moreover, Mr. Da Lay was published in New Art Examiner, Vol. 18 , No. 8, 04/1991, Pg. 39 Carol Ferring Shepley, article about “A One Scroll Show”, Maryville University.
Pentahedrices is a melding of two types of 3-dimensional imagery that I have been working on for the last 5 years using polyhedrons and pentacubes. The inspiration for using these objects came from the alphabet and number blocks. Work will encompass a variety of framed and hanging images on the wall used as support ideas to explain the main sculpture on display. The sculpture’s main idea is to explain the interdependency of relationships from nature, business, religion, and personal relations.
The sculpture will be constructed with two materials and separated, one part of the image will be laying on the floor and made from black high density foam rubber and in the shape of a cross that is represented in a painting by Salvador Dali entitled, "Crucifixion" (aka "Corpus Hypercubus"). The size of the hypercube will be 6ft. high x 9ft. wide x 12ft. long. Hanging suspended directly over the cross will a pentacube in a shape that will be an interlocking form constructed with white ripstop material and a metal frame to make the object a bit ridged to help give it shape. Its size will be 6ft. high x 9ft. wide x 9ft. long.
The framed images mentioned will be created using a variety of printmaking techniques from serigraphy, woodcuts, and waterless lithography. This meaningful dialogue between people and ideas is crucial to viewing objects and hanging images. The museum patrons are invited to discover each piece individually and as a group. Abstract marks, representational images, and organic patterns cover the faces, vertexes and edges of the polyhedrons and pentacubes.
My inspiration came from looking back at childhood symbols including letters and number blocks. The polyhedrons are constructed from fundamental shapes starting with the Platonic Solids. I have been drawn to mathematics and how numbers make and predict patterns including symmetry that involves balance. The colors in the double helix that define DNA strands and coded messages can be found in my images. Lately, famous quotes using ciphers to create coded messages, along with plain text have been used to convey my ideas to the viewer. Quotes from Jesse Ventura, Dr. Seuss, W. C. Fields, Thomas Mann, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Mother Teresa
can be found hidden and yet in plain ( and also plane) view.
The artists’ work that have been inspirational to me are cave art for its primitive mark making, Odilon Redon for his spirituality and color, Giorgio deChirico for his metaphysical evolutionary thinking, Frantisek Kupka for his color, mark making, and the evolution of his art, and Jim Sanborn for his use of words in his artwork. Books that have affected my work are by Carl Jung, “Man and His Symbols”, Mario Livio, “The Golden Ratio”, Fred B. Wrixon, “Codes”, Gyorgy Doczi, “The Power of Limits”, and Andrew Robinson, “ Lost Languages”.
The artist will be available by phone or email to answer any questions concerning all aspects of this project.
I look forward to speaking to you soon.
Sincerely, Stephen M. Da Lay 314-630-4236 dalay@sbcglobal.net dalays@umsl.edu www.blackfishstudio.com 7239 Murdoch Ave. Shrewsbury, MO 63119