Dan Howard Birt
Being a painter as his hobby between jobs. After seven years of conforming to a specific brief he got tired of being restricted. Now with more freedom. His exhibitions are conformed, highly organised and professional. Which for him is the main reason for him falling out of passion with his recent pieces. This is common within the art world and in my situation has happened since I no longer have a location to install my work with meaning about the place it is presented in. To over come this I have been looking at how Dan Howard said he rather have his in a junk yard sale, which gave me the feeling that a normal blank gallery is not suitable for my work. Giving art context through the place it is shown helps me and artists like Dan to understand the meanings and maybe to see something else that other viewers can't. One of his pieces was exhibited in the show
"Ingredients, Method, Serving Suggestion brings together an inter-generational group of artists to explore the relationship between contemporary art and the everyday, through the conceptual framework of the recipe"
this suggests that the format of a recipe being repeatable and to interpretation was like his work. This brought to my attention that my own practise is based a lot off what the viewer takes in to interpretation. For example, the cross year crit was a good way to hear what people felt about my work without explaining it. Some suggested meanings completely different from the one I explained after. These suggestions, like the show Howard-Birt exhibited in, were open to interpretation and like a recipe is up to the viewer/user to take what they want from it. These can lead to improving work by using ideas that you may not have thought of, that may work better.
In his curatorial career he used the concept of unconventional galleries to display work such as the "After Party" This was a way of not conforming to the white blankness of common gallery but to instead, as he put it, use a junk yard sale. This example was in the display case outside the gallery itself, which for most artists would not be a conventional way to show their work, but Howard Birt saw it as the best way to make sure the work was seen by all visiting as they would have to walk past it to enter. This to me is similar to how I exhibited my installation at the St.George's Hall gallery because my piece was upon entering the building, before the gallery space itself, this meant that I knew it would be seen by all the visitors and become the first impression of the show. Relating to Howard Brit's work I like how he uses these unconventional spaces which then frames the pieces and becomes part of the story of the art and can help to make the meaning more readable to viewers outside the art-world. However, from his actual practise I did not like the overall appearance of the pieces due to them being the colours being overly rich, deep and not complimenting one another. To combat this I would use the colour wheel to make sure if I wanted contrasting colours that they would at least work well side by side.
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