Ann Daly adaly@aya.yale.edu
BUILDING DRAWING IV: "GAZING BALL" for the Crystal Palace, Retiro Park, Madrid, Spain: A giant stainless steel ball fabrication. Mirror-like surface reflects 'nature' - the surroundings- architecture-etc. An 'image' constantly shifting, unfixed, distorted. Gigantic scale to create unease as viewer circles it, with 'moving images' upon the surface and the mise-en-abyme of reflections. Sits in a giant glass dish. Entire piece is glass and metal, an asymmetrical doubling of the structure of the crystal palace itself. A scene of disorientation is staged, as spatial signals misfire. A hallucinatory sheen to the everyday encounter accumulates. 'Nature' resembles itself, resembling images...
Ann Daly is a diverse media artist who lives and works in New York. Her work has been reviewed/published in Cabinet Magazine, Artforum International, The Los Angeles Times, PAJ/Performing Arts Journal, Artpress International, World Art Magazine, Multiplier, Voir, and other publications. She has exhibited in the US and abroad. Her installations have included Photography, Video, Sound, Narration, Drawing, and Sculpture. Daly participated in a discussion reconsidering Francesca Woodman's work, which was published in The Art Journal. Daly is an alum of the Yale School of Art (MFA) and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and is a recipient of a grant from Art Matters, Inc., and a John Anson Kittredge Fund grant supporting current work on Anti-monuments: A-view, A-wry (last year at...).
Ann Daly adaly@aya.yale.edu
BUILDING DRAWING IV: "GAZING BALL" for the Crystal Palace, Retiro Park, Madrid, Spain: A giant stainless steel ball fabrication. Mirror-like surface reflects 'nature' - the surroundings- architecture-etc. An 'image' constantly shifting, unfixed, distorted. Gigantic scale to create unease as viewer circles it, with 'moving images' upon the surface and the mise-en-abyme of reflections. Sits in a giant glass dish. Entire piece is glass and metal, an asymmetrical doubling of the structure of the crystal palace itself. A scene of disorientation is staged, as spatial signals misfire. A hallucinatory sheen to the everyday encounter accumulates. 'Nature' resembles itself, resembling images...
Ann Daly is a diverse media artist who lives and works in New York. Her work has been reviewed/published in Cabinet Magazine, Artforum International, The Los Angeles Times, PAJ/Performing Arts Journal, Artpress International, World Art Magazine, Multiplier, Voir, and other publications. She has exhibited in the US and abroad. Her installations have included Photography, Video, Sound, Narration, Drawing, and Sculpture. Daly participated in a discussion reconsidering Francesca Woodman's work, which was published in The Art Journal. Daly is an alum of the Yale School of Art (MFA) and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and is a recipient of a grant from Art Matters, Inc., and a John Anson Kittredge Fund grant supporting current work on Anti-monuments: A-view, A-wry (last year at...).