{"id":901,"date":"2009-08-11T14:55:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T21:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/greg_kucera_on_michael_dailey\/"},"modified":"2009-08-11T14:55:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T21:55:38","slug":"greg_kucera_on_michael_dailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/greg_kucera_on_michael_dailey.html","title":{"rendered":"Greg Kucera on Michael Dailey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greg Kucera<\/a> responds to this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Regina, your comment about Dailey’s work is an interesting, if not highly arguable, one. You wrote that “Once he found his style he didn’t change it until forced by health reasons.” I think that Dailey is, instead, one of those subtle, but still convincing artists who changed, not just because of his health issues, but because his mind expanded continuously. <\/p>\n

In 30 years or so, Dailey’s work progressed from horizontally banded works about palpable landscape in the 1960s, to vaporously open paintings about light and sky in the 1970s and into the 1980s, to complicated color studies in vertically banded works suggesting differing times and atmospheres into the 1990s, to the complex, nearly Baroque, works about framing space and color and mood in the last 15 years or so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

I view him as a restless, ever evolving artist who changed slowly and
\ndeliberately because that’s what really good artists do with their
\nwork. The change from oil to acrylic in the late 1970s was, to my mind,
\nnearly seamless and all the more amazing because I could understand how
\nhe painted those airy, atmospheric paintings in oil but never
\nunderstood how he did it in acrylic paint.<\/p>\n

 Along the way he
\ndiscovered, as Alden Mason did, that acrylic can do things that oil
\npaint doesn’t do easily and he altered his working methods to embrace
\nthose qualities. <\/p>\n

I don’t think he “lost his bounce.” I think
\nhe (and his work) bounced along as opportunities for change presented
\nthemselves and where he bounced to was as unpredictable for him as it
\nhas been for other artists who made significant transitions in their
\nwork such as Frank Stella or Richard Diebenkorn. <\/p>\n

In the most
\nabstract terms, Dailey made paintings concerning such ineffable
\nsubjects as atmosphere, mood, and time. He did so with great conviction
\nand intelligence. That he moved through a difficult life with humor and
\ngrace makes him all the more remarkable a man. As among the most
\ngenerous and kind people I’ve ever known, he will be sorely missed
\namong this community of artists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greg Kucera responds to this: Regina, your comment about Dailey’s work is an interesting, if not highly arguable, one. You wrote that “Once he found his style he didn’t change it until forced by health reasons.” I think that Dailey is, instead, one of those subtle, but still convincing artists who changed, not just because […]<\/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-901","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\/901","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=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}