Small Images Show 2008, Atkinson Gallery
One of the oldest art competitions on the West Coast, this exhibition is juried from hundreds of artists’ submissions that use a variety of media. This year there were 322 entries with 53 selected for the show.
The gallery is honored to have Daniel Dove as this year’s juror. He is a nationally exhibiting painter and Assistant Professor, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
Mr. Dove received a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in painting from Yale University. He has been awarded grants from the Dallas Museum of Art and the Ohio Arts Council. In 2004, Daniel was selected the winner of the University of Miami OH’s Young Painters Competition by juror Buzz Spector.
Daniel has had solo shows in New York City at Jack Shainman Gallery and in Los Angeles at Cherry and Martin Gallery and Mark Moore Gallery. He has been included in group shows such as “Made in California” at the Frederick Weisman Museum, “I Love the Burbs” at the Katonah Museum of Art (curated by Ellen Keiter), “More is More: Maximalist Painting” at the Florida State University Museum (curated by Tatiana Flores), and “Dreaming of a More Better Future” at the Cleveland Institute of Art (curated by Saul Ostrow).
On July 21st the year of 1984, the magic stars in the sky said: "Crazy girl you're late, open your eyes and say buenos Diaz to this wonderful world!" , and so I did. I opened my eyes right after a clap on my baby but, introduced myself as Inga Guzyte and took off into this crazy little world, Lithuania. Two years after me, my brother Linas followed, who knew he would become a carpenter later on. The time ran faster, I kept on discovering the world as I was playing games with my cousins, saving potatoes from potato bugs and sitting on big stacks of hey. Despite the careless childhood 11 years later Lithuania got too small and my little family of one brother and a single mother moved to a new and bigger/crazier world with lots of unknown words. We moved to Germany. I felt quite intimidated and shy in this big world, but exciting things kept happening to me. Wooden machines with wheels, looked like skateboards to me, were making the every day life more and more fun. Lots of unsaid words were unleashed on white paper taking the form of little funny monsters. And so the world kept spinning, the little funny monster characters kept following me,playing with me even after my High School graduation.