{"id":1160,"date":"2009-10-08T21:25:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T04:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/10\/drew_daly_-_the_world_breathin\/"},"modified":"2009-10-08T21:25:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T04:25:25","slug":"drew_daly_-_the_world_breathin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/10\/drew_daly_-_the_world_breathin.html","title":{"rendered":"Drew Daly &#8211; the world breathing in and out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dropped ball never hits the floor in Drew Daly&#8217;s resin sculptures, which are surely a tribute to Jeff Koons&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/breadcity.org\/2007\/09\/01\/three-ball-total-equilibrium-tank-by-jeff-koons\/\"><em>Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank<\/em><\/a> from 1985 in particular and to <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/jessicarae2008.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/lucas-3.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/jessicarae2008.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/28\/lucas-samaras\/&amp;usg=__cVda8G_NW34AQZQ2cOJgeazBFdo=&amp;h=480&amp;w=474&amp;sz=51&amp;hl=en&amp;start=1&amp;sig2=sWX5cmaZaSVEtfALnjgirA&amp;tbnid=ADnvMkid6mhM7M:&amp;tbnh=129&amp;tbnw=127&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dlucas%2Bsamaras%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den&amp;ei=LsXOSsavEZzmsAOs-dW7Dg\">Lucas Samaras<\/a> in general. <\/p>\n<p>Now at the Greg Kucera Gallery is Daly&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/daly.htm\"><i>Visual Fiction<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Float #2<\/i>, resin and basketball, 2009<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"drewdalyfloat.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/drewdalyfloat.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"573\" width=\"438\" \/>Daly makes art as if the world were a bellows, breathing in and out. On the exhale, faces, furniture and (most recently) sports equipment pull apart in fragments. On the inhale, they reform, but not necessarily in their original shapes. Two chairs become one, or one becomes two. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/_images\/daly\/daly_mirrormerg_web.jpg\">Twelve fuse<\/a> as if through an electrical current. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/_images\/daly\/daly_compression_web.jpg\">chest of drawers<\/a> bends and flares.<\/p>\n<p><i>Spalding<\/i> 1, 2 and 3: Cut photographs, glue, Plexiglas<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"drewdalyspalding1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/drewdalyspalding1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"179\" width=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"drewdalyspalding.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/drewdalyspalding.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"380\" width=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"drewdalyspalding3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/drewdalyspalding3.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"277\" width=\"250\" \/>He&#8217;s his own fun house mirror.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"drewdalyface.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/drewdalyface.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"500\" width=\"500\" \/>Through Nov. 14. His Web site <a href=\"http:\/\/drewdalyonline.com\/Work.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dropped ball never hits the floor in Drew Daly&#8217;s resin sculptures, which are surely a tribute to Jeff Koons&#8217; Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank from 1985 in particular and to Lucas Samaras in general. Now at the Greg Kucera Gallery is Daly&#8217;s Visual Fiction. Float #2, resin and basketball, 2009 Daly makes art as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}