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Artist: Dan Witz |
| Exhibition: Personal Space |
| Date: June 16 2004 - July 31 2004 |
Curator: Lea Rekow
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Bio:
Since the early Renaissance, painters have known that lIght, entering a painting, traveling through a lens of transparent color glazes, gathers strength then bounces off the bright white ground making their canvasses illuminated with their own refracted light.
Originally the working title for this series was, Home-Sweet-Home Windows. The project started a couple of years ago when after years of bitter struggle, I was in the end game of being evicted from my home and studio on Ludlow street. The catalyst for the idea came, while packing, I happened upon an art school xerox of the famous cri de guerre essay by Clement Greenberg proclaiming, Paintings are not windows. Conceptually I was fascinated by the process, the literal outsider-looking-in identification process I was experiencing while taking the source photos. While hunting for the windows, dragging my large format camera and equipment through dark suburban back-yards, I could vividly feel the reality of my life as an artist, the anxious apartnessmy fate as the sneaky exile perpetually pressed against the wrong side of the glass. Eventually, with time and refinement, the glowing windows evolved into a personal metaphor layered with enough conflict and resonance to sustain me through the ardous process of making the paintings come to life.
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