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  Saturday November 9, 3 - 5 pm
  

  Hamilton Center for the Arts
  16 Broad St, Hamilton, NY
  Tel: 315-368-4453
  

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• International Artist number 128, August/September 2019

  "Dan Bacich - Nature's Patterns"

Artist Statement

My leaf paintings and assemblages have more in common than it may at first appear.  Both are composed of things that have been cast off.  Both involve intricate arrangements within the confines of a narrow spatial realm.  And both have the power to invoke a narrative where initially none was apparent.  I like to alternate between the two modes of expression, allowing one to influence the other.

About the Leaf Paintings

Why leaves?  You might as well ask why a portraitist paints only people.  Why autumn leaves in particular? Blame it on a penchant for bright colors and melancholy.  Autumn leaves, like fresh cut flowers, are potent symbols -- memento mori -- gentle reminders of the inevitable dissolution of all things.  As design elements they are kaleidoscopic in their infinite variety and shape.  Autumn is a rough time of year for me; I am always looking down, treading carefully through leaf piles, searching for my next composition.

About the Assemblages

When I was fourteen years old my high school teacher, the late Richard DeAngelo, introduced me to the art of assemblage and thereby to basic design principles; I have been thinking inside the box ever since.  I never have a specific theme or composition in mind when I begin.  Instead the work arises organically from its parts, each piece suggesting another and so on.

Listen to a talk delivered on Wednesday April 21, 2010 at Munson Williams Pratt Museum. "An Affinity for Assemblage".

Biography

I was born in Syracuse, NY in 1959.  I received a B.A. in Comparative Religion and Fine Arts from Harvard College Class of 1981.  I pursued graduate study in both France and Germany funded by DAAD and Rotary fellowships.  Returning to Boston in 1985 I found employment with The Princeton Review, initially as a teacher, then later as master trainer for a variety of exams including the SAT, GRE and GMAT.  In 1997 I returned to upstate New York to care for my mother and younger sister, both of whom are in wheelchairs.  My artistic endeavors date from this homecoming.

Recent Exhibitions and Awards

• 2024
  Group exhibition, "Confabulations", Edgewood Gallery, Syracuse, NY, review of the show
• 2022
  Solo exhibition, "Nothing Gold can Stay", Edgewood Gallery, Syracuse, NY, review of the show
• 2019
  Solo exhibition, "Nature's Patterns", Maxwell Memorial Library, Camillus, NY
• 2018
  Group exhibition, "Influences", Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts, Little Falls, NY
• 2018
  Group exhibition, 83rd Annual Cooperstown Art Association Juried National Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association Galleries, Cooperstown, NY
• 2018
  Group exhibition, "Along the River's Edge", The Thousand Islands Arts Center, Clayton NY
• 2018
  Group exhibition, "Foolings Awakening", Edgewood Gallery, DeWitt, NY
• 2017
  Group exhibition, 82nd Annual Cooperstown Art Association National Juried Art Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association Galleries, Cooperstown, NY
• 2017
  Group exhibition, "Collage / Reformat / Refocus", MPW Museum of Art, 10 Genesee Street, Utica, NY
• 2017
  Group exhibition, "Small Works", Broad Street Gallery, 16 Broad Street, Hamilton, NY
• 2016
  Group exhibition, "Full Circle", Mohawk Valley Arts Center, 401 Canal Place, Little Falls, NY
• 2016
  Solo exhibition, "leaves upon leaves", Baltimore Woods Nature Center, 4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus NY
• 2015
  Group exhibition, Regional Art Show "Reflection", Mohawk Valley Arts Center, 401 Canal Place, Little Falls, NY
  Yellow Christ, Third Prize
• 2014
  Group exhibition, Contemporary Art Collection, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
• 2014
  Group Exhibition, "Small Works Invitational" 20 Artists Whose Artworks are 24 Inches or Smaller, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY
• 2014
  Group Exhibition, "REnewal : recycled materials and appropriated vintage imagery", Gandee Gallery, Fabius, NY
• 2014
  Juried exhibition, "Arboretum of Art", Franklin St. Gallery, Watkins Glen, NY
• 2014
  Solo Exhibition, "PANDORA: Big Themes Trapped in Tiny Boxes", Rome Arts and Community Center, Rome, NY
• 2013
  Group Exhibition, "Small Works 5 — collage and assemblage by five New York State artists", Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY
• 2013
  First Prize, Annual Juried Regional Exhibition, Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts, Little Falls, NY
• 2013
  Honorable Mention, Master's Division, 62nd Central Adirondack Art Show, View, Old Forge, NY
• 2013
  Juror of Annual Recycled exhibition, Rome Arts and Community Center, Rome, NY
• 2012
  Named Acting Superintendent of Fine Arts and Photography Exhibition, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
• 2011
  Solo Exhibiton, "Diminished Things", Cogar Gallery, Herkimer Community College, Herkimer, NY
• 2011
  Group exhibition, Community Coalition for the Arts, 1 South Main St. Dolgeville, NY
• 2011
  Group exhibition, 76th Annual National Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY
• 2011
  2nd Place, Graphics, 60th Annual Central Adirondack Art Show, VIEW, the new arts center in Old Forge, NY
• 2011
  3rd Place, Rome Regional Fine Arts Exhibition, Rome, NY
• 2010
  Grand Prize, Stanley Center for the Arts Regional Exhibition, Utica, NY
• 2010
  Charity Art Auction, silent art auction to benefit MOYA (The Museum of Young Art), Syracuse, NY
• 2010
  Group exhibition, "Findings: Found Object Art Invitational", Oswego Civic Arts Center, Oswego, NY
• 2010
  Solo exhibition, "Autumn Leafscapes", (Sep. - Nov.) SUNY Upstate Medical Library, The Scholar's Den, Weiskotten Hall, Syracuse, NY
• 2010
  Group exhibition, "The Cost of War", Binghamton City Hall, 2nd floor art gallery, Government Plaza, Binghamton, NY
• 2010
  Group exhibition, 75th National Exhibition, Cooperstown, NY
• 2010
  Group exhibition, "Markings of Time and Place", Edgewood Gallery, Dewitt, NY
• 2010
  Group exhibition, "62nd Exhibition of Central New York Artists", " Munson Williams Pratt Arts Institute, Utica, NY
• 2010
  Charity art auction, 2010 CNY Art Showcase and Auction, Rotary Club of Eastwood, NY.
• 2010
  Group exhibition, "Lakeside-Statewide", Oswego Civic Arts Center, Oswego, NY
• 2010
  Group exhibition, St. David's 40th Celebration of the Arts, Oswego Civic Arts Center, Dewitt, NY
• 2009
  Group exhibition, "Willful Eclecticism, Post-modern Invitational", Timothy McHenry Gallery, Oswego Civic Arts Center, Oswego, NY
• 2009
  First Prize Professional Painting and First Prize Professional Mixed Media New York State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Syracuse, NY
• 2009
  Solo exhibition, "Thinking Inside the Box", The Gallery at St. John Pottery, Baldwinsville, NY
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• 2009
  Library exhibition, "Recent Work", Rome Art and Community Center, Rome, NY
• 2009
  Cooperstown National Exhibition, Cooperstown, NY
• 2008
  "20/20 Small Works Show" (December), Limestone Gallery, Fayetteville, NY
• 2008
  "Landscapes, Lanterns, Leaves" (October), Edgewood Gallery, Dewitt, NY
• 2008
  2nd Place Professional Sculpture, NYS Fair, Syracuse, NY
• 2008
  Master's Division and 2nd place Acrylic Painting 56th Central Adirondack Art Show, Old Forge, NY
• 2008
  Cooperstown National Exhibition, Cooperstown NY
• 2008
  Everson Museum Biennial Exhibition "The Object and Beyond", Syracuse, NY
• 2008
  Made in New York, Schweinfurth Museum, Auburn, NY
• 2008
  Visual Arts Showcase #62, The Warehouse, Syracuse University Downtown, Syracuse, NY
• 2007
  PB&H Prize, Cooperstown National Exhibition, Cooperstown, NY
• 2007
  Cooperstown "Essential Art" Regional Exhibition, Cooperstown, NY
• 2007
  Master's Division, 55th Central Adirondack Art Show, Old Forge, NY
• 2007
  Best of Show, Oswego Statewide Lakeside Competition, Oswego, NY
• 2006
  Made in New York, Schweinfurth Museum, Auburn, NY
• 2006
  Master's Division, 54th Central Adirondack Art Show, Old Forge, NY
• 2006
  Visual Arts Showcases # 56 and #57, WCNY Studios, Syracuse, NY
• 2006
  Delavan Gallery (February), Syracuse, NY
• 2005
  "Assemblages" Solo exhibition (September), Rome Art and Community Center, Rome, NY
• 2005
  "Fallen Leaves" solo exhibition (November), Cazenovia Public Library, Cazenovia, NY
• 2004
  "Autumn in America" (September), State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY
• 2004
  Best of Show, Rome Regional Exhibition, RACC, Rome, NY
• 2004
  First Place, Acrylic Painting, Lake Placid Arts Center, Lake Placid, NY
• 2004
  Master's Division, 52nd Central Adirondack Art Show, Old Forge, NY
• 2003
  First Place Professional Painting, NYS Fair, Syracuse, NY