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The Oakbook

August 6 - September 20, 2010

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423 Water Street Oakland, CA 94607
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Daniel Healey Detail of tape transfer collage, Daniel Healey
*** The first comprehensive solo survey show of work by Daniel Healey Opening: Friday, August 6, 6 - 9pm Artist’s reception: Saturday, September 4th 7 - 10pm Artist’s talk: TBA “Oakland artist and curator Daniel Healey feeds off the discards of our throwaway cul- ture, in this case by using images from contemporary magazines and books. With tape-and-ink transfers, Healey covers the canvas with dense patchworks of domestic objects, which blur into beautiful landscapes when viewed at a distance.” - Jeanne Storck(ArtWeek, Shotgun Review) The Oakbook magazine and gallery is proud to announce the first comprehensive survey of solo and collaborative work by Oakland-based artist Daniel Healey.Coming off the heels of several critical acclaimed group exhibitions such as “Double Exposure” (2008, Blankspace) and the 2009 edition of the juried Bay Area Currents, Art@TheOakBook gallery director Theo Konrad Auer, saw this as an apt time to give this artist a new platform to further his dialogue between between aesthetics, conceptual content, audience interpretations. As the artist put it,”I'm using very conventional materials more often found in office supply stores or in the shipping world. I think that using utilitarian objects connects the average viewer into a self referential relationship.I am trying to open up dialogues between use of products and how the process affects the creation of art.” Utilizing everyday materials like Paper, tape, #2 pencils, cardboard, foamcore, and glue displacing their original fucntion(s) until they reach their own potential in a new “dysfunctional” way. “ In my world, paper serves our need to communicate, pass information, denote a thought, sketch, draw. Cardboard is the barrier between manufactured goods and the world. It's a funny throw away layer of skin protecting the goods beneath. Foam core is used for the display of posters with information, presentations, and for building architectural models. Glue is used to "fix" the objects that fall victim to their own fragility and disorder. Collaborating with found books and other artists (Darren Hawk, Michael Cutlip, and Damon Smith) causes a different relationship between order and disorder. A lot of my work is also dealing with this core theme of making and developing order out of chaos. [I start] with a simple idea or process and repeat it until a structure emerges.” The three *** being the title of the show ties together these footnotes. It allows the the viewer to deal with works in different materials and series into relationships with the each other and the show as a whole. The show uncovers the many sides of my repertoire(painting, drawing, found object procuring, collaborative, and video) the first time in a single show/vision. Although I feel all of my different series deal with things on their own concepts and imagery, one gets the sense that they connect in many ways. Disparate on some levels and cohesive at the same time. This show aims to opens up a dialogue between aesthetics, conceptual content, audience interpretation.