Bøger af Matthew Chase-Daniel

For millennia, humans have struggled with the linguistic conundrum of describing what is inherently indescribable, in naming the unnameable. As soon as words are used, meaning is lost. The same conundrum exists in science and art. This exhibition is a method of enquiry into this philosophical, scientific, religious, and artistic topic. Inspired by artists and writers such as Yves Klein, John Cage, Agnes Martin, Gertrude Stein, and T.S Eliot, we draw on thinkers from Maimonides to Lao Tzu, Werner Heisenberg, Jean-Paul Sartre, and more.

In 2011, Axle Contemporary created the Haiku Roadsign Project: 32 Haiku by New Mexico-based poets, 2 per week on a portable roadsign in 16 locations around the streets of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Includes photos, poems, and essays by Matthew Chase-Daniel & Jerry Wellman, Joan Logghe, and Laura Addison.

In the summer of 2014, artist Matthew Chase-Daniel raised $1,500 and then left it, one dollar at a time, on the streets of Santa Fe New Mexico. The book contains 176 color photographs and an essay describing the project.

In Chase-Daniel's 2011 series of black and white flatplate scanner photographs of the human body, we are engaged with a rare blend of intimacy and anonymity. As we move through this series, we are by turns seduced and repulsed, the anomalous becomes beautiful, the individual becomes universal. By the end, our sense of boundaries are blurred, between male and female, the beautiful and the ugly, the sacred and profane, youth and old age, self and other. Published by Axle Contemporary.

The book is the result of Axle Contemporary's mobile portrait project which took place on and adjacent to the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona in September, 2016. The book contains over 700 photographic portraits, images of the project in action, essays by the artists and the director of the Navajo Nation Museum and a poem by the Navajo Nation Poet Laureate. The Axle Contemporary free portrait studio was open to all people, in locations on and near the Navajo Nation from September 2 through September 13, 2016, visiting Gallup, Prewitt, Toadlena, Window Rock, Chinle, Shiprock, and Farmington. Each participant held a small personal object in their portrait. Photos were immediately printed in the mobile studio --one given to the participant and one pasted to the exterior of the mobile studio-gallery.