Renditions and Remediations, Daniel McCullough

Renditions and Remediations, Daniel McCullough
January 18 – March 2, 2019

 

 

The Alice Wilds is pleased to announce our next exhibition, Renditions and Remediations, the first solo exhibition of the photographic works by Daniel McCullough. Please join us on Friday, January 18th from 5-9pm for an opening with the artist during the Historic Third Ward’s Gallery Night & Day.

In Renditions and Remediations McCullough explores the possibilities of the plastic properties of photographic film at the intersection of lens and print. Using large format view cameras and negatives McCullough intervenes and disrupts our expected notions of photographic renderings of the scenes he has chosen to document.

After blindly altering his negatives physically, prior to their exposure, by the application of various materials, the reduction of emulsion, or the excision of portions of his negatives proper, McCullough then proceeds with only the memory of the tracings he has left on his unexposed film to document the landscape, intuitively seeking moments of aesthetic resonance

The resulting photographs, seamlessly integrating McCullough’s physical interventions into his pictorial landscapes, confront us with a gamut of possible emotional and reasoned responses; surprising moments of quiet contemplation, quixotic mystery, manic restlessness and a compulsion for analytic understanding.

McCullough’s photographs achieve a remarkable dual function as both apt metaphors and direct experiences of the elusive nature of objectivity. His abstract interventions serve as the constantly shuffled subjective meditations of our ineffable selves that structure the meaning of the scenes in front of us, rendering the most mundane or majestic with the wonder and curiosity of our now self-conscious perceptions.

Daniel McCullough received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, a Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Alumni Thesis Scholarship and was a Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists finalist in 2018. In 2017, McCullough received an editorial internship with Lenscratch. He was selected for the Plum Blossom Initiative Bridge Work 04 Professional Development Program, 2018-2019. He currently resides in Milwaukee, WI.