Harvard graduate in comparative theology and son of a Syracuse pieman, Dan Bacich is a Complex Simon. His autumn leaves paintings attract both former leaf-peepers exiled to southern states and connoisseurs of art as line, color, and composition. "Death is the mother of beauty," so Wallace Stevens.
As this youtube video reveals, Dan's muse expects a lot from him--litters of three-dimensional assemblages, viewable in their magical variety this week in Baldwinsville as the exhibit "Thinking Outside the Box." A number of the boxes will be exhibited at a major art museum in New York State starting in 2010.
We've had the pleasure of producing tiles and tile murals of Dan Bacich's paintings for the past two years (above top, 6" x 8" of "Ugly is Beautiful"). It was Phil "Loudeac Tile Studio" McCray who had the idea of putting Dan's assemblages on tile. Nothing can vie with the real things, but their photographic reproduction printed on tile produces delectable simulacra with their own appeal. (A detail from the assemblage "Little Vampire" appears above.)
You can see an example of this translation in the exquisite 12" x 12" ceramic tile of "Newton's Law" hanging at Magpie. Or visit one of Dan's shows this summer.
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