RAIR | 2002-03
John Dooley |
John Dooley (1956 - 2011)
My work deals with re-contextualization. I am interested in forms and systems that have been established and transformed. I'm interested in the forces that transform these systems and the fact that the representations of these systems and their transformations often then take on a life or meaning of their own, long after the meaning of the thing they represent has lost its original function. In describing the process I employ to create the artwork in this exhibition, I often picture myself kneeling at the banks of a stream. Through the stream flows the various aspects and products of our cultural production. I enjoy reaching into that stream, pulling out selected bits, reconfiguring them, and then setting them back into the flow.
In my own artwork I often employ sculptural and graphic strategies such as mapping, accumulating, sorting and gridding in order to explore and express this type of re-contextualization. The forms and systems I am interested in exploring and depicting have often already been subjected to this type of representation, and my work is then a second- or third-generation depiction of a subject. A picture of a picture of a picture, if you will.
John Dooley June 2003
AMoCA Collection | Five Seasons, newsprint on paper on plywood, 2003
Five Seasons, (detail) newsprint on paper on plywood, 2003
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Rair exhibition • “John Dooley — paper" • July 12 - August 10, 2003
