Ann Daly adaly@aya.yale.edu
BUILDING DRAWING V: “LOST” (A Porcelain Landscape Room)
Part of a larger project "Looking for the Labyrinth: Re-collecting Versailles". Cast white porcelain, sculptural walls, total size approximately 16 feet x 12 feet in dimension. Each wall produced as a panel, or series of panels, depending on technical practicalities of production in the factory. Cast bas relief landscape imagery. Deep sculptural bas relief in the porcelain room: landscape imagery covers entire surface of interior walls, moving onto floor. The room itself will have one doorway, and no windows. The porcelain will be entirely white. The phenomenological response might be quesiness or unease from the reflective surfaces and the white on white blurring the fold of walls. General: The project re-imagines lost portions of the gardens of Versailles which are now known only through writings, prints, and paintings. Interest in the role of fantasy and projection in ‘concretizing’ an image, albeit an incomplete and distorted one, as memory and attempts to reconstruct through documentation are a study in ‘incompleteness’. Investigates the hinge of memory where projection of desire, merges, creating a synthetic ‘image’, or re-collection (at the hinge, the interstitial). I maintain an interest in the role of contradiction and paradox in re-collection. The function of gaps and slips which suggest portions left aside, the troubled aspects of remembering, the blank spots, filled in or glossed over. The project seeks to hold contradictions in play, such as baroque excessiveness and distortion-the ‘formless’- at the heart of a ‘formal’ garden such as Versailles.
Note to AUP: This was the first of many Unbuilt drawings produced from 2002 to the present. The other four proposals sent today are from 2009-2011.
Brief Bio: 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 V: “LOST” (A Porcelain Landscape Room)
Part of a larger project "Looking for the Labyrinth: Re-collecting Versailles". Cast white porcelain, sculptural walls, total size approximately 16 feet x 12 feet in dimension. Each wall produced as a panel, or series of panels, depending on technical practicalities of production in the factory. Cast bas relief landscape imagery. Deep sculptural bas relief in the porcelain room: landscape imagery covers entire surface of interior walls, moving onto floor. The room itself will have one doorway, and no windows. The porcelain will be entirely white. The phenomenological response might be quesiness or unease from the reflective surfaces and the white on white blurring the fold of walls. General: The project re-imagines lost portions of the gardens of Versailles which are now known only through writings, prints, and paintings. Interest in the role of fantasy and projection in ‘concretizing’ an image, albeit an incomplete and distorted one, as memory and attempts to reconstruct through documentation are a study in ‘incompleteness’. Investigates the hinge of memory where projection of desire, merges, creating a synthetic ‘image’, or re-collection (at the hinge, the interstitial). I maintain an interest in the role of contradiction and paradox in re-collection. The function of gaps and slips which suggest portions left aside, the troubled aspects of remembering, the blank spots, filled in or glossed over. The project seeks to hold contradictions in play, such as baroque excessiveness and distortion-the ‘formless’- at the heart of a ‘formal’ garden such as Versailles.
Note to AUP: This was the first of many Unbuilt drawings produced from 2002 to the present. The other four proposals sent today are from 2009-2011.
Brief Bio: 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...).