DA N IE L RA E DE K E NATUREBOOK
bruno david gallery
DANIEL RAEDEKE NATUREBOOK
June 3 - July 30, 2016 Bruno David Gallery 3721 Washington Boulevard Saint Louis, 63108 Missouri, U.S.A. info@brunodavidgallery.com www.brunodavidgallery.com Director: Bruno L. David This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition DANIEL RAEDEKE: NATUREBOOK Editor: Bruno L. David Catalog Designer: Lauren R. Mann Design Assistant: Claudia R. David Printed in USA All works courtesy of Bruno David Gallery and Daniel Raedeke Cover image: SHARING SUNLIGHT 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm) Copyright © 2016 Bruno David Gallery, Inc. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the written permission of Bruno David Gallery, Inc.
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NATUREBOOK by Danield Raedeke AFTERWORD by Bruno L. David CHECKLIST AND IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION BIOGRAPHY
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NATUREBOOK by Daniel Raedeke 2
In the Naturebook’ series, I focus on the painted surfaces and textures that has comprised my work on and off for the last decade. The eleven wall paintings and one dual sided painting stand explore the saturated world of images from nature publications such as the late 1960’s Time-Life Nature Library that I was fascinated with as a child. In previous work, I developed layered surface effects as backgrounds and “skins” for invented forms. In Naturebook, I focus the work into an investigation of the layered background, offering up a handmade acoustic compliment to his often digitally inspired artistic output. Each 30 x 30-inches painting in Naturebook explores the themes of archiving, documentation, world building and stratified image memories. The paintings act as sort of posters or chapters in a visual documentation of nature and natural phenomena. The grid evident throughout the series evokes a handmade pixilation and recalls digitally produced imagery while also being all about the physically produced analog properties and the potential of the painted surface. I distill the work into effects, a collection of samples and combinations to be used and repurposed as the “raw material” for future digitally inspired work. Naturebook provides a guide to the natural world through the prism of the digital world.
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AFTERWORD by Bruno L. David 4
I am pleased to present an exhibition titled “Naturebook” by Daniel Raedeke at the Bruno David Gallery. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Daniel Raedeke’s new painting series, offers a handmade, acoustic, compliment to his often digitally inspired artistic output. The paintings explore the saturated world of images from nature publications Raedeke enjoyed as a child. In previous work, Raedeke has developed layered surface effects as backgrounds and skins on invented forms. In Naturebook, Raedeke concentrates the work into an investigation of the layered background. Although expressive and handmade, the works in Naturebook recall a digital past as if archived jpegs of nature photos have broken down over time and are repackaged as color and texture samples. Daniel Raedeke lives and works in St. Louis. He received his M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. Raedeke has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the U.S. Support for the creation of significant new works of art has been the core to the mission and program of the Bruno David Gallery since its founding in 2005. I am deeply grateful to Lauren R. Mann, who gave much time, talent, and expertise to the production of this catalogue. Invaluable gallery staff support for the exhibition was provided by Cleo Azariadis, Marisa Drewes, Ashley Lee, Alex DeRosa, and Ryan Eckert.
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CHECKLIST & IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION
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THE UNQUIET PLANET 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm)
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SHARING SUNLIGHT 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm)
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STRANGE LIVES 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm)
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NATURE STAND-NATUREBOOK 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm)
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CLOUDY BEGINNINGS 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm)
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SANCTUARY 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm)
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ILLUSIONS IN THE AIR (detail) 20
ILLUSIONS IN THE AIR 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm) 21
ANATOMY OF THE SKY (detail)
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ANATOMY OF THE SKY 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm)
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BIOGRAPHY OF THE SUN 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm) 24
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ORIGINS 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm)
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THE GREEN WORLD 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm)
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RISE AND FALL (detail) 30
RISE AND FALL 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm)
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NATURE STAND-EVENTFUL PAST 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.20 x 76.20 cm)
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DANIEL RAEDEKE: NATUREBOOK at Bruno David Gallery, 2016 (installation view - detail) 34
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DANIEL RAEDEKE: NATUREBOOK at Bruno David Gallery, 2016 (installation view - detail) 36
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DANIEL RAEDEKE: NATUREBOOK at Bruno David Gallery, 2016 (installation view - detail) 38
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DANIEL RAEDEKE: NATUREBOOK at Bruno David Gallery, 2016 (installation view - detail) 40
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DANIEL RAEDEKE Lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri EDUCATION M.F.A
2000. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 Bruno David Gallery, NATUREBOOK, Saint Louis, Missouri (catalogue) 2015 Lambert-St. Louis Airport (Terminal 1), Almost Always New, Saint Louis, Missouri 2013 Bruno David Gallery, New Paintings, Saint Louis, Missouri (catalogue) Bruno David Gallery, The Things that Paintings are Made of, Saint Louis, Missouri 2006 Bruno David Gallery, Magasin, Saint Louis, Missouri (catalogue) 2004 Laumeier Sculpture Park: The Kranzberg Exhibition Series, Always Almost New, St. Louis, Missouri 2003 Byron Roche Gallery, Painting a Better Future for You, Chicago, Illinois Kroma Space, Painting a Better Future for You, St. Louis, Missouri 2001 Kroma, PAINT_INGS, St. Louis, Missouri 2000 New Wagner Gallery, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Edwardsville, Illinois The Gallery, Analog B-Sides, University City Library, Missouri SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2010 2009
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Burst of Memory, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri AND / OR, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) OVERVIEW_2014, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri BLUE-WHITE-RED, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri W.O.P. I, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Overview_10, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri The Path of Most Resistance: Alexis Harding, Daniel Raedeke, Elizabeth Mclntosh and Nestor Kruger, Curated by Charles Reeve, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada Overview_09, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2008 2007
Overview_08, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri ArtsDesire, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Overview_07, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis Artists at La Esquina, La Esquina Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri. St. Louis Painters, Curated by Douglass Freed, Daum Museum, Sedalia, Missouri (catalogue) 2006 PERSONAL LOGICS/approaches to the abstract, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri. Curated by Matthew Strauss (with Ernest Trova, Eva Lundsager, Jerald Ieans, Brandon Anschultz) Overview, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Selections from the Contemporary’s Flat Files, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Missouri 2005 Inaugural Exhibition, Bruno David gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Adaptation Syndrome: Painting in Contemporary Image Culture, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virginia Arts Desire, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Missouri 2003 Art Chicago, Byron Roche Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois 2002 Art Cache, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Missouri Museum of Art and Telfair Museum 305.21 Miles: The Distance Between Us, Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri 2001 Seven Saint Louis Painters, R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Moody, Lona Happe, Amanda Freed, Douglass Sieloff, Alison Beall, Hugh and Griffin, William Strauss, Matthew Cooper, Ivy. Bonetti, David. Krone, Thomas. Beall, Hugh. Miller, Rob. Beall, Hugh and Griffin, William Bonetti, David. Sieloff, Alison. Bonetti, David. Lombardi, Dominick. Murphy, Anne. Watkin, Mel. Cooper, Ivy. Bonetti, David. Friswold, Paul. Cooper, Ivy. Sieloff, Alison. Schroeder, Ivy. Schroeder, Ivy. Keller, Margaret.
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“Daniel Raedeke: New Paintings.” Bruno David Gallery Publications (Catalogue), December 2013 “The Gallery Couldn’t Resist”, Torontoist, July 15, 2009 “St. Louis Painters.” Daum Museum Publications (Catalogue), 2007 “Art Shop”, Riverfront Times, October 12, 2006 “Bruno David Gallery: Daniel Raedeke”, Illusion Junkie, October, 2006. Video Documentary “Daniel Raedeke: Magasin.” Bruno David Gallery Publications (Catalogue), October 2006 “Bruno David Gallery: Inaugural Exhibition”, Riverfront Times, November 9, 2005. “Bruno David Gallery”, St. Louis Post Dispatch, November 9, 2005 “Bruno David Gallery”, 52nd City, October 2005, http://blog.52ndcity.com/archives “The Bruno buzz”, West End Word, October 26, 2005 “Bruno David Gallery: Inaugural Exhibition”, Saintlouisart, October 25, 2005 “Bruno David Gallery: Inaugural Exhibition”, Illusion Junkie, October 25, 2005. Video Documentary “Bruno David Gallery: Inaugural Exhibition”, St. Louis Post Dispatch, October 20, 2005 “Grand Grand Center”, Riverfront Times, October 19, 2005 “Gallery musical chairs”, St. Louis Post Dispatch, October 1, 2005 “Adaptation Syndrome: Painting in Contemporary Image Culture”, NY ARTS, 2005 “Art News”, The Healthy Planet, September 2005, http://www.thehealthyplanet.com/sept05_artfulliving.htm “Daniel Raedeke at Laumeier Sculpture Park”, Art in America, April 2005. “Raedeke: Beta”, Laumeier Sculpture Park Catalog, June 2004 “New Fun by Raedeke”, St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 27, 2004 “Post-Post-Modern Man, The Riverfront Times, June 9, 2004 “Surviving St. Louis”, Art Papers, May/June 2004. “Raedikal”, The Riverfront Times, May 7, 2003 “Painting’s One-Man Show: Daniel Raedeke’s Paintings, Art Papers, May-June 2002 “Daniel Raedeke, New Art Examiner, January/February 2002. “Delicious colors from Raedeke’s Innovative Work, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 21, 2001.
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ARTISTS Laura Beard Heather Bennett Lisa K. Blatt Michael Byron Bunny Burson Judy Child Carmon Colangelo Alex Couwenberg Jill Downen Yvette Drury Dubinsky Damon Freed
Douglass Freed Ellen Jantzen Michael Jantzen Kelley Johnson Howard Jones (Estate) Chris Kahler Bill Kohn (Estate) Leslie Laskey Patricia Olynyk Gary Passanise Judy Pfaff
Charles P. Reay Daniel Raedeke Tom Reed Frank Schwaiger Charles Schwall Christina Shmigel Thomas Sleet Shane Simmons Buzz Spector Cindy Tower Ann Wimsatt Monika Wulfers
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