Lloyd Dobler Gallery
September 11th to October 16th, 2010.
Read reviews of the show.
"Four for Fall" by Claudine Ise, PBS's Art:21 Blog
"Chicago's Best of 2010" by Abraham Ritchie, Artslant.com
"Art review: Dan Gunn" by Candice Weber, TimeOut Chicago
"Winter of discontent", by Lauren Weinberg, TimeOut Chicago
"Best art of 2010 found in unlikely places", by Lauren Viera, Chicago Tribune
"Dan Gunn at Lloyd Dobler" by Lauren Viera, Chicago Tribune
Review by Britt Julious, ARTWRIT.com Volume IV 2010.
“Objects only make sense in relation to thinking, speaking subjects; things are evanescent, multistable appearences; and matter as we have known since the ancient materialists is a lyric substance.” - W.J.T. Mitchell
I try to assemble pictures that want to engage in picture making. By collecting objects that go together I create a series of functional, aesthetic and cultural relationships between the constituent parts. The pieces relate to the space they inhabit, helping to emphasize the importance of context to a picture’s reception. The work uses familiar and whimsical materials to emulate familiar devices of presentation like stage sets, billboards, architecture, furniture or altars. These shifting material relationships use the effects of light and solidity, transparency and screening, layering parts that each contribute to the overall experience of contingency in the work. Materially through the affects of light and quirky material choices the objects begin to reassert wonder as an approach to object relations. My work is in part about how thinking, feeling subjects interact with and interpret the physical world of objects to ascribe them meaning.
