Unique Art at Carroll

Unique art installation will be on display at Carroll University

WAUKESHA, WIS.—Award-winning photographer Eddee Daniel will display his new exhibit, “Accidental Art: Construction Fences in the Landscape,” at Carroll University from Sept. 3-Oct. 11, 2009, free and open to the public. A closing reception will be on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 10 a.m.-noon. The photography and mixed media installation will be in the Marceil Pultorak Atrium Gallery of the Humphrey Memorial Chapel and Art Center, 238 N. East Ave., Waukesha. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Friday, 2-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Daniel’s latest work is not a typical photography exhibit. The two-story atrium provides an opportunity to immerse visitors in Daniel’s subject, orange and black construction fencing. The photographs depict these common fences with an eye for the unexpected. Aesthetically intriguing and conceptually demanding, they challenge the viewer to see beyond the immediate subject, to confront tensions and dualities in our society, and to discover surprising beauty. The installation of actual fencing, much of it found in locations where it was used and abandoned, takes the subject out of the picture frame and surrounds viewers. The exhibit presents two realities: the reality of the photographs that depict fencing in the world and the reality of the gallery setting itself, which shapes the context of the experience.

Daniel provokes a variety of questions. Where does this art begin, with the fences themselves or with the photographer who sees them and makes a composition? What do we consider art or aesthetic? What do the fences symbolize? Do we perceive them in our communities or take them for granted, brightly colored and ignored? What kind of world are we trying to construct behind them and, ultimately, all around them?

For more information, contact Peggy Thurston Farrell, gallery director, at 262.524.7195.