DANIEL IN OMAHA
Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack, 2019
"It was a key experience. It put a lot of things in motion and created a sense of joining. Fluxus liberated our minds, our thinking. But we had no interest in joining."
- Gerhard Richter, The Cage Paintings
A silhouette gracefully gallops along a desert landscape, the sun stands high and beams down upon a black Stetson brim. As the sun moves west the gallop chases the shadow east and beads of sweat cast themselves towards the landscape's dusk. As the silhouette disappears into the night the steadfast gallop wrestles the awakening eastern sunrise. In this Spaghetti Western there is no "nameless" cowboy, and there is no Italy. In this Western epic there is only Daniel and Omaha.
Mid-Western
a painting...maybe
a sculpture...who knows
a performance...could be
a collage...possibly
a poem...we'll see
contextual...most likely
relevance...certainly
Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack, 2019
"It was a key experience. It put a lot of things in motion and created a sense of joining. Fluxus liberated our minds, our thinking. But we had no interest in joining."
- Gerhard Richter, The Cage Paintings
A silhouette gracefully gallops along a desert landscape, the sun stands high and beams down upon a black Stetson brim. As the sun moves west the gallop chases the shadow east and beads of sweat cast themselves towards the landscape's dusk. As the silhouette disappears into the night the steadfast gallop wrestles the awakening eastern sunrise. In this Spaghetti Western there is no "nameless" cowboy, and there is no Italy. In this Western epic there is only Daniel and Omaha.
Mid-Western
a painting...maybe
a sculpture...who knows
a performance...could be
a collage...possibly
a poem...we'll see
contextual...most likely
relevance...certainly
Photos Courtesy of Dan Schwalm
About the Artist:
Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack's performances are concerned with ideas of hierarchy, Negro Formalism, and dissociation. He applies installation and destruction in his art as an aesthetic technique for creating new forms of perception related to disorder in society, trafficking bodies and economic crisis. His own paintings and ready-mades become material for the installations that Gaitor-Lomack uses or destroys during his performances, challenging the value of time-honored beliefs that art must be an intrinsically stable aesthetic object.
www.danieltgaitorlomack.com
Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack's performances are concerned with ideas of hierarchy, Negro Formalism, and dissociation. He applies installation and destruction in his art as an aesthetic technique for creating new forms of perception related to disorder in society, trafficking bodies and economic crisis. His own paintings and ready-mades become material for the installations that Gaitor-Lomack uses or destroys during his performances, challenging the value of time-honored beliefs that art must be an intrinsically stable aesthetic object.
www.danieltgaitorlomack.com