Daniel Biddy

Born out of a preoccupation with “looking”, a subdued mania for collections, and an integral compulsion to arrange groups of things, I work in collage. The variance and multiplicity within its unassembled elements, the immediacy of its potential to create associative content, the element of chance and discovery in the process of mining thousands of images from source material supply an infinite fascination. My palette is gathered from printed media, unaltered beyond removal of its embedded periphery. Cutting and pasting, imagery is recycled, re-purposed, re-contextualized. Equal time is spent collecting, selecting, eliminating, and assembling materials.

While narratives cannot help themselves but to be constructed when disparate imaged elements are saddled next to and couched within one another (as collage is want to do), my intention is not to make conclusive thematic statements but to develop an expansive impression about a primarily private dialogue and simultaneously provide a significant visual basis for personal relationship within the viewer while maintaining a sense of play. An intentionality around a lack thematic specificity does not preclude a content current loosely indicative of identity constructed of amounts and ...

BFA Atlanta College of Art 1999.

Group shows: Swan Coach House, Atlanta 2007-2015; Vaknin Gallery Atlanta, 2008; Hambidge Residency Auction 2008-15; Alan Avery Gallery, 2009, 2015; ARTPAPERS Auction 2007-15; University of West Georgia, 2013; Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, “E-Merge” 2013-2014. Solo exhibitions: K2 Modern Atlanta, “Not What It Seems” 2009; Barbara Archer Gallery Atlanta, “Out of Context” 2010, Finalist Artadia 2011. Hambidge Residency Fellowship, 2014, Permanent Collection of The High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia. Representation: Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, Georgia