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with moniquemeloche
January 2013
January 24–27, 2013
The Barker Hangar
3021 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Opening Night: Thursday, January 24, 7–9pm
Public Fair Hours
Friday, January 25, 11am–7pm
Saturday, January 26, 11am–7pm
Sunday, January 27, 11am–6pm
Summer 2012
Participant in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Madison, Maine
Class of 2012
Columbia College A + D Gallery
Fall 2011
Color : Fully Engaged
Columbia College
A + D Gallery
September 25 - November 5
Opening reception Thursday, Sept 29th, 5-8pm
"Color makes a comeback every day. We open our eyes, we turn on the light, we see, we remember color. Color: Fully Engaged is a multi-faceted exploration of the meaning and interpretation of color. Via works created as part of fine arts, design and architecture disciplines, this exhibition follows modern and contemporary trajectories of color as both singular idea and associative methodology. Investigating color symbolism and hierarchies within historical, cultural and theoretical contexts, each selection ponders what may or may not be universal about color. The exhibition catalog includes an introduction by curator Jamilee Polson Lacy, essay by Claudine Isé, and artists' interviews."
Contributing artists include Academy Records, Jeanne Dunning, Susan Giles, Dan Gunn, Adriane Herman, Anna Kunz, Jessica Labatte, Matthew Metzger, Liz Nielsen and Nathaniel Robinson.
moniquemeloche
September 2011
Routine Scenic Machine
Monique Meloche Gallery
September 9 - October 8
Opening reception Friday, Sept 9, 6-9pm
For his first solo exhibition at moniquemeloche, Dan Gunn (American, born 1980, lives Chicago), who considers himself primarily a painter, will make all new work including wall-based, free-standing, and hanging constructions. Simultaneously present and elusive, Gunn’s work elicits an awareness of the viewer’s own visual and spatial perception through the construction of objects that highlight the interconnected relationship between artist, viewer, and object. “I am trying to construct an indifferent object that has recently become the object of desire, yet leave it in that mixed state,” says Gunn.
Using the many languages of abstraction, Gunn builds a series of malleable surfaces that display different functional, aesthetic and cultural relationships between their constituent parts. However, for Gunn, abstraction is not used to reveal some underlying truth but rather as a way to notice the everyday structures that influence our relationship with pictures. Among other things, Gunn’s work examines our curious relationship to commercial display and the found object. In the artist’s words, “everything changes once it’s found, becoming involved in a chain of associations and symbolic appropriations. A rags to riches story.”
Article by Lauren Viera of the Chicago Tribune
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, UBS 12 x 12 New Artists: New Work
September 2011
UBS 12 × 12: New Artists/New Work: Dan Gunn
September 3- October 2, 2011
Gunn's abstract objects simultaneously inhabit the realms of painting and sculpture. In his three-dimensional compositions and installations, he explores perceptual phenomena using materials such as glitter, tinsel, chair caning, holographic paper, and patterned fabrics. His structures echo forms of display and domesticity while incorporating familiar found objects. For his UBS 12 x 12 presentation, Gunn explores the "depth" of painting by embedding a series of objects in a large horizontal surface.
12 x 12 Artist Talk: September 13th, 6 pm
moniquemeloche
January 2011
Winter Experiment 2011
January 18th to the 22nd, 2011.
Opening and conversation on the 22nd at 1pm.
Monique Meloche Gallery presents the Winter Experiment 2011. Four artists have been invited do one week long installations that end in a discussion open to the public. Please join me for my exhibition at that culminates in a Saturday afternoon "conversation" with Michelle Grabner. Chicago contemporary art podcast Bad At Sports will also be onsite covering the talks.
Saturday January 22, 1pm: Dan Gunn & Michelle GrabnerMichelle Grabner, who is an artist, curator, writer and the founder of The Suburban in Oak Park, teaches at the School of the Art Institute. After the conversation, follow us to Shane Campbell Gallery, for the open of Grabner’s solo exhibition Like a rare morel.
Other dates include...
Saturday January 15, 1pm: Ebony G. Patterson & Tumelo Mosaka
Saturday January 29, 1pm: Ben Fain & Shannon Stratton
Saturday February 5, 1pm: Anna Shteynshleyger & Andreas Waldburg-Wolfegg
Lloyd Dobler Gallery
September 2010
Multistable Picture FableLloyd 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.
The Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
August 2010
Above: Dan Gunn, Wood floors for the basement, Red Oak and polyurethane, 16" x 24", 2010.
The Great Poor Farm Experiment II + All Over the Map
Private view, August 6 – 8, 2010
Exhibitions by appointment: August 9, 2010 — June 1, 2011
E6325 County Highway BB
Manawa, WI 54949
http://www.poorfarmexperiment.org/
The Great Poor Farm Experiment II includes contributions by...
John Neff
Amy Yao
Sabina Ott
Nicholas Frank
Olivier Mossett
Gerold Miller
Tyson Reeder
Milwaukee International
Keil Borrman
Doug Ischar
Amy Granat & Emily Sundblad
Paul Druecke
Ian Hokin
Magalie Guérin Sean Ward
Winslow Smith
Dan Gunn
Karolina Gnatowski
Maxon Higbee
Pedro Velez
Yogi Proctor
Charles Mahaffee
Richard Galling
Kimberly Miller
and Summer School
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ALL OVER THE MAP
All Over The Map: A Festschrift Exhibition for Moira Roth's 77th Birthday is a year-long exhibition honoring the extraordinary work of this art historian, poet, and artist. The exhibition is culled from a weekend-long event of both formal and impromptu installations and performances that will take place at The Poor Farm in July 2010.
All Over The Map will feature artworks, installations, artifacts, and collections. It will also include a series of other exhibitions curated by Moira and Annika Marie e.g. Room of Memory, The Poor Farm: Fragments of a History, together with the traveling exhibition of The Library of Maps (that includes Moira’s poems and Slobodan Dan Paich’s Drawings).
Milwaukee Avenue Art Festival
July 2010
Above left: Dan Gunn. Above Right: Derek Chan and Roxanne Hopper.
Below Left: Rusty Shackleford and Curt Bozif. Below Right: Cole Pierce.
Danny Think Tank will feature recent work of 11 Chicago based artists, showcasing a survey of contemporary practices. The ongoing dialogue within Danny Think Tank will guide the curatorial decisions as the group responds to the unique location. The exhibition will take place in a vacant loft/apartment, exhibiting a collection of paintings, photography, collage, sculpture and video.
Milwaukee Ave Art Fest July 23-252628 N. Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor (apartment above Disco City)
Chicago, IL
Friday - Opening 6-10pm
Sat & Sun noon-11pm
Curt Bozif
Derek Chan
Ryan Fenchel
Dan Gunn
Roxane Hopper
Lisa Majer
Stephen Nyktas
Cole Pierce
Julie Rudder
Kendrick Shackleford
Craig Yu
For more information about the Festival:
the Loyola University Museum of Art
Summer 2010
New Icon
June 5 – August 1, 2010
Opening: June 4, 5:30 – 7:30*
Presented by the Contemporary Arts Council
Loyola University Museum of Art
820 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
New Icon, a group exhibition curated by Britton Bertran and sponsored by the Contemporary Art Council. The artists featured in New Icon include Zachary Buchner, Pamela Fraser, Carrie Gundersdorf, Dan Gunn, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Brennan McGaffey, William J. O’Brien, Sze Lin Pang, and Kevin Wolff.
Read reviews of the show...
“New Icon / Critic’s Picks” by Michelle Grabner, Artforum.com July 2010
“A Usually Pictorial Representation” by Erik Wenzel, ArtSlant.com June 28, 2010
“New Icon / Review” by Spencer Drew in Newcity Magazine, June 21st 2010.
“New Icon” by Lauren Weinberg, Time Out Chicago, June 17th 2010
"Top five shows of the year that I went to" by Steve Ruiz, Chicago Art Review
For more information:
http://www.luc.edu/luma/flash/new_icon.html
Sponsored by the Contemprary Arts Council
http://www.contemporaryartscouncil.org/
with Lloyd Dobler Gallery
Spring 2010
Come see my work at Lloyd Dobler Gallery's booth #9050 at the NEXT FAIR, Part of Goffo. with Hector Arce Espasas, Eric Guerrero, James Kao and Sebastian Vallejo.
www.lloyddoblergallery.com
Lloyd Dobler Gallery
Summer 2009
Middleground
June 12 - July 25, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday June 12, 6-10pm
Works by: Jerome Acks, Dan Gunn, Michael Hunter, and Andrea Myers
SideCar Gallery
Fall 2009
Saturday October 24th, 2009
Opening Reception 5-9 pm
Works by: Dan Gunn, Karolina Gnatowski,Sara Hicks, Chris Miller, Jeremy Price, Bob Reinard, Jeremy Somer and Mindy Schwartz.
Curated by Mike Kaysen and Carl Baratta
Side Car Gallery
411 Huehn St.
Hammond, IN.
sidecargallery@gmail.com
Hours: Saturday - Sunday 12 -4pm.
Hyde Park Art Center
Fall 2009
The Debut of "Artists Run Chicago Digest"
Sunday November 8th, 2009
Opening Reception: Hyde Park Art Center
threewalls and The Green Lantern Press are pleased to announce our latest publishing collaboration, The Artist’s Run Chicago Digest, a complimentary publication to the exhibition Artist’s Run Chicago (curated by Britton Bertran and Allison Peters Quinn) at the Hyde Park Art Center, May 10th-July 5th, 2009.
The ARC Digest is meant to archive in print the activities of Chicago’s artist-run spaces between 1999-2009. It acts both as a companion to the exhibition and an extension of that project with interviews by Dan Gunn, essays by Abigail Satinsky, The Pond, Scott Speh and John Neff, Mary Jane Jacob and Lori Waxman, and an accompanying audio program by Bad At Sports featuring an interview with Temporary Services and a panel of Chicago artist-run media organizers..Interviews, essays and responses along with floorplans, exhibition histories and other visuals archive and present a 10-year time period in Chicago’s artist-run culture while providing history, reflection, critique and dialog about artist-run culture, its importance, difficulties, sustainability and necessity as well as its specificity to a community and generation..