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Eric Daigh
Traverse City, MI

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Eric Daigh is showing at:
	The Old Federal Building 155 N Division Ave Grand Rapids, MI 49503 View profile

Eric Daigh
Artist bio: Eric Colin Daigh b. 1977, Orange, CA I am the son of a painter and a dental hygienist. I live and work in Northern Michigan with my wife and son. I am free from credit card debt. EDUCATION University of Montana - Missoula, MT EXHIBITIONS 2009 Communication Arts - Illustration Annual Winner Guinness Book of World Records - "Largest Pushpin Mosaic" 2008 Right Brain, Traverse City, MI 2007 Inside Out Gallery, Traverse City, MI
Artist statement: Using push pins, the innocuous, adhesive, near-detritus of our everyday Eric creates the view from here. His work is that rare arial perspective of the faces we see everyday, the vistas of common personalities, the longview of the human. You can stand up close, squint into the vacu-formed industrial sheen of some common object but such a perspective only argues the atomic structure of his work. As we pull back one quotidian reference morphs into another, objects become portraits, the pedestrian becomes sublime. Molecules, pixels, cultivated fields all speak to his medium. He starts with a flat 5 color cadence, all just rhythmic loops, then relationships form, a singularity shifts into subtle congress and depth and tones appear. We step back further and slowly, as if through the portal of some remote ship we suddenly recognize. That's us. That's me. His grids are pictoral DNA, a seemingly simple sequence that when sounded in its complexity reveals the honesty of the unreapeatable person

Eric Daigh

Artist bio: Eric Colin Daigh
b. 1977, Orange, CA
I am the son of a painter and a dental hygienist. I live and work in Northern Michigan with my wife and son. I am free from credit card debt.

EDUCATION
University of Montana - Missoula, MT

EXHIBITIONS
2009
Communication Arts - Illustration Annual Winner
Guinness Book of World Records - "Largest Pushpin Mosaic"

2008
Right Brain, Traverse City, MI

2007
Inside Out Gallery, Traverse City, MI

Artist statement: Using push pins, the innocuous, adhesive, near-detritus of our everyday Eric creates the view from here. His work is that rare arial perspective of the faces we see everyday, the vistas of common personalities, the longview of the human. You can stand up close, squint into the vacu-formed industrial sheen of some common object but such a perspective only argues the atomic structure of his work. As we pull back one quotidian reference morphs into another, objects become portraits, the pedestrian becomes sublime. Molecules, pixels, cultivated fields all speak to his medium. He starts with a flat 5 color cadence, all just rhythmic loops, then relationships form, a singularity shifts into subtle congress and depth and tones appear. We step back further and slowly, as if through the portal of some remote ship we suddenly recognize. That's us. That's me. His grids are pictoral DNA, a seemingly simple sequence that when sounded in its complexity reveals the honesty of the unreapeatable person

About the work:
Title: Portraits
Art form: 2-D, 3-D
Medium: push pins on board
Year created: Work not created yet
Description of work: A series of portraits, each 48"x72" done in pushpins on board.
Work statement: My work is built to elicit a relationship with the viewer initially started by the unorthodox material of the piece (push pins) and enduring for the emotional quality of the image. I am interested in impact and emotion with this piece.
Technical details:
Work width:	216 inches
Work height:	72 inches
Work depth:	3 inches
Required venue ceiling:	120 inches
Required venue door height:	84 inches
Required venue door width:	48 inches
Required wall linear footage:	448 ft.
Required venue square footage:	1800 sq. ft.
Additional considerations:
Audio/video needed:	No
Electrical needed:	No
Lighting needed:	Yes
Internet access needed:	No
Ground floor access needed:	Yes
Indoor space needed:	Yes
Outdoor space needed:	No

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