|
Featuring work by:
Tammy
Rae Carland
Eliot K Daughtry
Kriss De Jong
Teri Claude Dowling
Jordy Jones
Jenny Michals
Hien Nguyen
Rev. Tim Taylor
Back
to Main Page
|
Artist
Statement
My introduction
to the world of art was at my grandfather’s workbench, where he
shared with me his knowledge of fine carving, and how to use all manner
of tools. By the age of 10, I knew how to operate most power tools in
a wood shop, and how to put a razor edge on a chisel. This early experience
has given me great freedom in my work. A solid foundation in traditional
craftsmanship, materials and discipline leads my focus on content, intent
and balance. Over the years, an ever growing arsenal of techniques and
seemingly unrelated technologies have allowed me to create works rich
in both formal approach and meaningful subject matter.
As my understanding of content unfolded, a great desire to integrate
my divergent approaches developed. A deep need to alter my physical
environment to suit my emotional reality became a driving force in my
existence. The cycles of work that have resulted from this have manifested
as installations made for performances, performances made for installations,
musical scores made from narrative illustration, improvisational music
sessions on the internet, and cycles of work that encompass sculpture,
stained glass, and painting as integrated installation. My work in one
discipline seeps into the others, enriching each in a way that strengthens
across boundaries, and redefines the reasons for the work to exist.
Twin forces in my personal life have driven me deep into the exploration
of gender and technology. Because of my ability with technology of almost
any kind, I found myself in demand in the burgeoning world of dot com
startups in San Francisco. Struck by the artificially short life span
of the very expensive black boxes that comprise the force that is the
Internet, I started building sculptures out of the remnants of these
machines. These constructions celebrate the quasi-spiritual reverence
and mysticism that surrounds computers and Internet technology; items
destined to become relics long before their useful life is ended. At
the same time, another cycle of work started, realized in glass, wood
and paint on panel, that delves into a dystopian experience of gender,
male sexuality and identity that takes Pinnochio, Coyote, Joan of Arc
and a World War I corporal as the avatars of deliverance.
I exist in a world that finds no contradiction between Louis Armstrong,
The Dead Kennedys and Laurie Anderson; sees no difference between a
work by Holly Hughes and the Simpsons; that celebrates Frank Miller
on equal footing with Joseph Cornell. This world manifests in an insistent
DIY methodology, that embraces the past, and looks constantly towards
building a future; not hopeless, but knowing that participation is mandatory.
This world takes artists as the primary force, makes possibilities that
did not exist before, and meets at the crossroads.
Bio
Eliot
K Daughtry
Solo
and Duo Exhibitions
DanceMission,
Displacement/Flux, San Francisco, CA, 2002
SomArts, Flux, San Francisco, CA, 2002
Buddies, Selected Drawings, Chicago, IL, 1991
Suzie B's, Selected Drawings, Chicago, IL, 1990
ARC Gallery, Fragment, (installation) Chicago, IL, 1989
Group
Exhibitions
SomArts,
National Queer Arts Festival, EG: (r)evolution of Gender, San Francisco
CA 2003
Pro Arts, East Bay Open Studios 2003, Oakland CA 2003
Public Glass, San Francisco 2003
Richmond Art Center, Members Only, Richmond CA, 2003
Right Mind(s), Emeryville, CA, 2003
Open Studios, Oakland, CA, 2002
Noodle Factory, West Oakland Day of Art, Oakland, CA,2002
Noodle Factory, Land of Frienz, Oakland, CA, 2002
Pilsen Art Walk, Chapel of St. Joan the Koyote, Chicago, IL, 1996
Beret International, Queer Art Show, Chicago, IL, 1991 (juried)
Book
Art
Ltd.
Edition Wall Calendar (with Kriss De Jong), 1999
The Bainsi Book & CD-Rom (ed of 30, with Kriss De Jong & AJ
Elledge), 1997
Selected
Performances
Poep Show Tour (California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia)
2003
SomArts Rear Gallery, Mr Sister, San Francisco, CA 2003
SomArts Theater, Mediums Collide, Artists Combine, San Francisco CA
2003
Sacrifice, video improv, 40 at Sacrifice, San Francisco, CA 2003
40th St., video improv, 40 at 40th, Oakland, CA 2003
Dance Mission, video improv, Displacement, San Francisco, CA, 2002
Oakland Metro video improv, World HomoHop Fest, Oakland, CA, 2002
111 Minna, Red, in Passiondoll, Aural Fixation: Sonic Voyagers 2.0,
San Francisco, CA, 1999
The Lab, in Passiondoll, Aural Fixation: Sonic Voyagers, San Francisco,
CA, 1999
On the Boards Studio Theater, in Bad’N’Wrong, Electromuse
II, Seattle, WA, 1999
Vickers Theater, Michigan Arts in a Co-Production between Killer Banshee
Productions & Abiogenesis, Do you have special needs? A site specific
dance
performance on disability & nuclear emergency Planning, Three
Oaks, MI, 1998
Gemini, in Bad’N’Wrong, John Perry Barlow’s 50th Birthday
Party, New York, NY, 1998
Musik Messe, in Bad’N’Wrong, Performance Demonstration,
Frankfurt, Germany, 1998
Wembley Stadium, in Bad’N’Wrong, New Music Festival, London,
England, 1997
Centre Pompidou, New Music Center, in Bad’N’Wrong, ircam,
Paris, France, 1997
Randolph St. Gallery, untitled, with Joan Jett Blakk and Beth Tanner,
Chicago, IL, 1992
Beacon St Theatre, Baby New Year, with Beth Tanner, Chicago, IL, 1992
N.A.M.E, Big Art on Small Change: 64 cent Shopping Spree, Chicago,
IL, 1991
Bailiwick Theatre, The Adored and the Adorned, (with Beth Tanner),
Chicago, IL 1990
RECORDINGS
Composition
Passiondoll (with Kriss De Jong), Red, (released on Aural Fixation:
Sonic Voyagers), 1999
Bad’n’Wrong (a collaborative improvisation group), Live
Soundscapes vol. 1, 1997
Passiondoll (with Kriss De Jong), Vicious Ambience, 1996
Sound Design
By Hook or By Crook (as Killer Banshee Studios, with Kriss De Jong)
a film by Harriet
Dodge and Silas Howard, Steak Haus Productions, 2001.
1061 Knapsack (as Killer Banshee Studios with Kriss De Jong), a film
by Ross Schuman, 2001Score
“Godspeed” by Lynn Breedlove (with Kriss De Jong) 2002
“Baby New Year” by Beth Tanner, 1992
“P-Form circus” (public service announcement theme song
for P-Form magazine), 1991
“The Adored and the Adorned” by Beth Tanner, 1991
“Here Kitty” for D’arcy Von Schultz, 1991
Education
Studies
in Vitreous Painting on Glass, Studio of Corning Museum of Glass,
Corning NY, 2002
BS Manufacturing Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
IL, 1998
BFA Performance and Video, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago IL, 1989
AA Sculpture and Painting, NOVA, Alexandria Campus, Alexandria VA,
1987
|
