JIKAI
2013
Single-Channel Video
Running Time 4 minutes 55 seconds
Shown on multiple synchronized monitors in New York City in February 2014 as a featured video in the Times Square Midnight Moment series
JIKAI
2013
Single-Channel Video
Running Time 4 minutes 55 seconds
Shown on multiple synchronized monitors in New York City in February 2014 as a featured video in the Times Square Midnight Moment series
Riddles
Set of 13 works
2015
Watercolor, graphite, inkjet on paper
13 x 19 in. (33 x 48 cm)
WORDS
2018
Multi-screen video installation
America in Color
2013
Single channel video
Running time 1 h 18 mins
Edition of 8 plus 2APs
American, b. 1951, Pittsburgh, California, based in the Washington D.C.
Brian Dailey’s work in a variety of mediums including photography, film, installations, and painting engages with the social, political, and cultural issues of our times. His life journey and its many peregrinations since launching his art career in Los Angeles in the 1970s have led him on a path of many surprising twists and turns, encapsulated in his creative vision as a self-described storyteller. Dailey’s art reflects his unconventional evolution as an artist and multifaceted life experiences, which include national level involvement in arms control and international security. The artist’s unusual experiences, which he approached with the same curiosity that has driven his art in diverse media, continue to provide a fertile source of inspiration in his unconventional creative practice such as the global video installation WORDS (2012-2018). Dailey has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., and Bulgaria and participated in a number of group shows in the United States, Europe, and Russia. His mid-career retrospective Declassified: Unraveling a Paradoxtook place at Bulgaria’s National Art Gallery in Sophia in 2014.
Education
Otis Art Institute, MFA, 1975
University of Southern California, PhD 1987 (Arms control, Russian studies, diplomatic history, dissertation on the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty)
Brian Dailey’s works are shown at The Rachel M. Schlesinger Arts Center, January 11 – February 8, 2019. Opening reception 5-7pm, January 23. The exhibition is organized The Rachel M. Schlesinger Arts Center in collaboration with the Department of Photography and Media of the Alexandria Campus of NOVA.
“GEOPOLITICAL PERFORMANCE”, by JULIANA BIONDO, OCTOBER 17, 2018, BmoreArt
DC-Based Artist Brian Dailey Confronts the Overlaps Between Art and Politics After a Career Working in Government and Tech
2018
Brian Dailey: Polytropos, Baahng Gallery, New York, NY
WORDS: Brian Dailey’s Contemporary Tower of Babel, American University Art Museum, Washington DC
2017
An Odyssey: Brian Dailey Digital Work, Dupont Underground, Washington DC
America in Color, Beacon Investment Corporation, Chicago, IL
2016
America in Color, Beacon Investment Corporation, Chicago, IL (through 2017)
2015
America in Color, Beacon Investment Corporation, Washington D.C. (through 2017)
Bulgaria in Democracy, City Art Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Bulgaria in Democracy, National Assembly, Sophia, Bulgaria
2014
Declassified: Unraveling a Paradox, National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Jikai, Times Square Art Alliance, Midnight Moment, New York, NY
2013
Tableau Vivant and Project Morpheus, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY
2012
America in Color, Curated by Simon Watson, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Absence and Presence: Arts in Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial, Washington DC
2017
Fathom Experiment #4: Venus is Venus is Venus, Dupont Underground, Washington DC
TOGETHER: The Work of Paula Ballo Dailey and Brian Dailey, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington DC
Alchemical Vessels, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington DC
2016
UP TO US, Pro Humanitate Institute, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
GEOMETRIX: Line, Form, Subversion, Curator’s Office @ Gallery 2112, Washington D.C.
2015
Jikai, Recent Acquisitions, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (group exhibition through May 2016)
Domination and Irony, ONE Gallery, Cosmomoscow, Moscow
2014
Steel City Steampunk Exhibition, [Selections from America in Color] Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference
Center, Pueblo, Colorado
2012
Biennial of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo-Konjic, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2011
Washington Project for the Arts, Select Art Auction Gala, Washington, DC
Portraits, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
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Brian Dailey at The Rachel M. Schlesinger Arts Center
