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October Issue
2009
Appalachian
State University in Boone, NC, Features Works by Daniel Eatock
Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, is presenting the exhibit, Daniel Eatock: Extra Medium, on view through Nov. 16, 2009.
The show introduces a practice shaped by discovery, invention, and an alert sensitivity to coincidence and contradiction. The exhibition is curated by Richard Torchia, Director of the Art Gallery at Arcadia University in Pennsylvania.
Eatocks' hybrid practice is unified by a generous abundance of examples and its openness to collaboration, both of which are demonstrated by the number and variety of projects posted on his website. These include participatory works conceived for this exhibition that include gifts contributed with price-tags intact or photos taken of lights being switched off. To learn more details about these projects and to how to participate, visit (www.art.appstate.edu).
"Driven by ideas and the fluidity of language and its categories, the works in Extra Medium are equally invested in a curiosity about the physical properties of objects and materials and the range of circumstances in which we might encounter them," says Torchia. "Unforeseen solutions to familiar challenges (domestic storage and display, stationery, website design) join an expanding roster of more idiosyncratic, client-less efforts, such as Eatock's ongoing attempts to draw a perfect freehand circle - offer contingent forms of value and meaning amidst the chaos of the everyday."
A graduate of London's Royal College of Art, Eatock served on the design staff of the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) before returning to England to work with clients that include Britain's Channel Four and the Serpentine Gallery (London). His early regard for conceptual art (cultivated, in part, by reading Lucy Lippard's 1973 classic Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object has consistently biased his solutions toward the objective, the essential, and the critical without sacrificing the wit that characterizes some of the best examples within this tradition.
The exhibition coincides with Eatock's recent publication Imprint, a monograph by Princeton Architectural Press. This 224-page book, the first to survey Eatock's practice to date, features nearly 1,000 images from more than 100 projects from 1994 to the present. Entirely authored and designed by Eatock, the book is distinguished not only by its (deceptive) lack of apparent order but also by the fact that each individual copy in the run of 4,000 is unique. In addition to inking his own thumbprint onto the spine of every book, Eatock arranged for one of his freehand circle drawings (on a sheet of yellow 8.5" x 11" paper) to be inserted into the binding of each copy at random locations throughout the entire edition. Catalogs will be available for purchase in the gallery.
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the gallery
at 828/262-7338 or visit (www.art.appstate.edu/cjs).
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