(photo: install in progress)

Things have been quiet on here. I finished my first year of grad school (!!) and then immediately started to prepare work for a show I have opening Saturday. When this is done, I’ll get back to the internet.

My friend Greg Ruffing did some writing about my new work, and includes a conversation we had while I’ve been working on the install. He did a great job with this, I’m super grateful for it. If you have a moment, take a look, I talk about the work in the show and the book project I’ll be working on all summer.

And if you live in Chicago, come to my show, I’ll be eternally grateful. 

Sorry this is me me me me. Love you.

(I also quietly updated my website)

I am very happy to announce a two person exhibition with the painter Richard Galling at LVL3 Gallery, opening in May. Details:

Suspended 
Saturday, May  19, 2012 – Sunday, June 24, 2012

Richard Galling
Daniel Shea

Suspended is a state, a moment, some kind of disbelief, a stalemated gesture frozen in its own established conditions. Richard Galling’s paintings deconstruct and utilize marks and gestures within a framework of abstraction, proposing a new system of painted signs. Daniel Shea’s objects and installations examine the mythologies and histories of the post-industrial ruin and a perceived material authenticity. Together their work offers an interplay between an aesthetic and conceptual modernism and industrial modernity. As one history implicates another, their work shown together suspends multiple moments in aesthetic and political lineages.

Opening Reception:
Saturday, May  19, 2012
6:00pm – 10:00pm

PDN30 out next week. One of my main doggs, Jake Stangel is also in this year’s 30. And buddy Ryan Pfluger (his spread). 

Last week Ryan and I headed to rural Ohio to shoot a photo essay for Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The story is about a GM factory that reinstated their third shift, 10:30 PM-6:30 AM, and how the addition impacted local businesses positively. It was a pretty exhausting shoot - after driving all day, we began 12 hours of bouncing around Lordstown and surrounding small towns to photograph the factory, small businesses and a few select subjects for the story. We then drove back in the morning. Because the magazine was going to press a day later, everything had to be shot digitally, which at night can easily produce bad, bad images. It was good practice.

Anyways, I loved working on this, and once again getting the opportunity to photograph people working on the line, making things, puts things into perspective. Nothing but respect.

I uploaded an extended edit of photos on my site here, and here’s the feature on Bloomberg’s site, complete with captions. The story is on newsstands today if you want to see the spread in print.  

Channeling the Soviet Bloc for The Atlantic.

For Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

Channeling the occult for Popular Mechanics.

I spent the last week editing new work and updating my website. Anamnemon, is my latest project, sculptures, collages, and photographic works that I’ve been working on since beginning graduate school.

Thanks for looking.

Anamnemon, new work.