Artist Statement

Sheep Farm or There Is Much That Sheep Don’t Know

By Dan Devine

Sheep Farm is a living, self-sustaining installation exploring the issues of local production, biotechnology, military applications of research and questionable commercial practices. It begins here with five Rambouillet sheep and shed enclosed in an electric fence with all the accoutrements and activities of a working farm. It will continue to develop and function as a living artwork and a studio in which new ideas will develop.

Sheep Farm addresses the meaning of local. Most of the materials to construct the piece come from a 25 mile radius, including the sheep which were born in Berkshire County. While this aspect is to help create a starting point for thinking locally, local as a concept provides a form for understanding and managing our community and environment.  When was this land last farmed? What does it mean that we now mow the fields?  When will the sheep be shorn? Will lambs be born?  Who brings them water and hay? The piece invites simple questioning which opens up the area for big thinking.  When we have direct access to the source of products, we gain the ability to direct outcomes. In global economies this ability is often overpowered by unknown sources with remote agendas. There is much that sheep don’t know.

Most sculptures are frozen moments that lend themselves well to hard publication and website format.  This is a piece in motion and is best captured on the blog format which continues to evolve and invites the participation of many.  Please join the living document on my blog at: dandevineart.blogspot.com    

Bio

EDUCATION
MFA,  Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

ONE  PERSON  EXHIBITIONS
2007                 Sheep Farm, The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent, NY. A progressing public sculpture.
2006                 Inside Out Nascar, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY.
2003                 Dan Devine, Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY
2002                 This Conversation may be recorded for training purposes. Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2001                 Davis and Hall Gallery, Hudson, NY
1998                 Inside Out Car, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY.
1993                 MetroTech Center,  Brooklyn, NY,  Public Art Fund Commission, Outdoor Concrete Sculpture.
1992                 Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery,  New York, NY.
1991                 Zilkha Gallery,  Wesleyan University,  Middletown, CT.
1988                 Coup de Grace Gallery,  Hoboken, NJ.
                         Bali Miller Gallery,  New York, NY.
1987                 Untitled (an environmental sculpture), Mobius Theatre,  Boston, MA.
1985                 Exhibition and Lecture, Four Walls, Hoboken, NJ.
1984                 Landscape Without Cow, collaborative environmental sculpture with Stefan Roloff,
                         Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA.
1983                 Mound Series, Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA.
1982                 Point of Passage, an environmental sculpture, Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA.
1978                 Dan Devine, Struck Gallery, Worcester, MA
1962-74            Outdoor Projected Light and Image Installations, A variety of venues in Connecticut,
New York, California and France          

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006                 Manhattan Transfer, Zone Chelsea Fine Arts, N.Y., NY. Curated by John Weber.
Inside Out Nascar, South East Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2004                 Pierogi A Go-Go, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (cont’d)
2003                 Sharjah Biennial 6, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Brooklyn Artists, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Mass.

2001-03            Surronding Interiors: Views Inside the Car, curated by Judith Hoos Fox, Davis Museum,
Wellesley, MA.  Exhibition will travel to Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL and The
Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota.
2002           Interstates-Innerstates, Davis Art Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College,
Wellesley, MA (exhibition scheduled for Spring and will travel to other venues).
2001                 Brooklyn 718, curated by Dominique Nahas and Michael Rush,Palm Beach Institute for
Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL
2000           Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Five Sculptors, curated by Joe Amrhein, Long Island University,
Brooklyn, NY
Mis-Understanding, Begane Grond, Utrecht, Holland
                  Endless Tangibility, Landscape Sculpture Commission, Almere, Holland
1999           Fairy-Tales, curated by Denise Carvalho, Center for Metamedia, Plasy, Czech Republic.   
1999                 Brooklyn, New Work, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dysfunctional Sculpture, Center Galleries, Detroit, Michigan.
Rage For Art, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY.
Permanent Resident, curated by Odili Donald Odita, (Paradise 8 curatorial project), Exit
Art/The First World, New York, NY.
Chocolate Kingdom, curated by Leslie Brack, The Work Space, New York, NY.
Heavy, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY.
Outer Boroughs, White Columns, New York, NY.     
1997                 Redefinition’s: A View From Brooklyn, Main Art Gallery, California State, Fullerton, CA.
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.
Shadow Traffic, E.S. Van Dam Gallery, organized by Suzanne Joelson, New York, NY.
Road Show '97, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery @ 520 5th. Ave., New York, NY. 
Making Art History, Albany Center Gallery @ Ten Brock Mansion, Albany, NY
1996                 Brookworld, Installation in condemned building, organized by Cindy Tower, New York,
Body, Trace, Memory, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY.
Scratch Benefit for Threadwaxing Space, Organized by Mel Chin, N.Y., NY.
Benefit for BLAST. New York, NY.
From the MAB Library, AC projectroom, New York, NY
1995                 Grounded,  Art/Omi  Annual Outdoor Sculpture Invitational,  Ghent, NY
1994                 A Life of Secrets, curated by Kim Jones, AC projectroom,  New York, NY,
Recollection, Tai Ming Moy, New York, NY
Site Seeing,  Bardamu Gallery, New York, NY
Life / Boat,  curated by Robert Mahoney,The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sign Language, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (cont’d)
1993                 Kirili, Devine, Silverthorne, Stockholder, West. Gallerie Nathalie Obadia,  Paris,  France.
Devine, Kirili, Silverthorne,  Stux Gallery,  New York, NY.
On the Road, Horodner/Romley Gallery, New York, NY
Underlay, 5 Renwick St.,  N.Y., NY,  curated by Paul Bloodgood and Gavin Brown.
Twisted State, 80 Washington St., New York, NY

Jours Tranquilles a Clichy,  at Paolo Goyannes,  Paris,  France, and NY, NY. Curated by Alain Kirili

1991                 Abstract Information, curated by Ellen Handy,Sacred Heart University and Bard College
Animation and Ornament,  Syracuse University and SUNY Potsdam,
curated by Stephen Westfall.
1990                 Electrified Aura, curated by Robert C. Morgan
Nahan Contemporary, New York, NY.
1989                 The Milky Way, curated by Stephen Westfall,
Shoshana Wayne Gallery,  Los Angeles, CA,  curated by Stephen Westfall.
1988                 John Davis Gallery, New York, NY
1987                 Photomannerisms, Lawrence Oliver Gallery,  Philadelphia, PA,  curated by Klaus Ottmann.
Sub-Industrial Sculpture,  White Columns,  New York, NY,  curated by Bill Arning.
Hyperspaces, Art City,  New York, NY,  curated by Klaus Ottmann and Leslie Tonkonow.

1986           Transformations, Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Stephen Westfall.
1985                 Exhibition and Lecture, Four Walls, Hoboken, New Jersey.
Invitational Exhibition, A.I.R., New York, NY
1984                 Landscape Without Cow, collaborative installation with Stefan Roloff,
Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA.
Urban Image/Countryside Views, The University Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire at
Durham. NC
Mural, at Kamakazi, N.Y., NY.
1983                 Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY.
Combinations, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
1981                 New England Relief, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.
Four Photographers:  Views and Fragments, Helen Shllen Gallery,  Boston, MA
Photo Collage, Treat Gallery, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
Fort Point Artists, Boston City Hall Gallery, Boston, MA
1980                 Artweek Boston, Boston, MA
Fort Point Studios, Boston, MA 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006     Schmerler, Sarah, Trans-Nascar, The New York Times, March, 26, page AR 2
2004     Baird, Daniel, Open House, Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Rail
Volk, Gregory, Big Brash Brooklyn, Art in America, September, page 97.
Wilkin, Karen, Open House, Working in Brooklyn, The Journal
2003     Rubinstein, Raphael, Dan Devine at Hofstra Museum, Art in America, November, page 170.
Plagens, Peter, Dan Devine, essay for Hofstra Museum Catalog.
2002     Baird, Daniel, This Conversation may be Recorded, etc., The Brooklyn Rail
BIBLIOGRAPHY (cont.)

2001     Fox, Judith Hoos, Surrounding, Interiors, 2wice, Volume 5, number 2, pages 14, 15 (illustration)
2000     Mahoney, Robert, Five Sculptors, Timeout New York, September, 14-21, page 108.
Smith, Roberta, Stretching the Definition of Sculpture, The New York Times, July 28, page 29.

1999     Smith, Roberta, ‘Rage for Art (Pierogi Reborn), Art Review, The New York Times, Feb. 19, page 37.
Cotter, Holland, Exit Art/The First World, Art Review, The New York Times, Feb. 12, page 37.
Reid, Calvin, Dan Devine at Pierogi, Review of Exhibitions, Art in America, Feb., page 112.
Kotik, Charlotta, Peer Reviews (Highlights of 1998), ARTnews, Jan., page 99.
Volk, Gregory, The Chelsea Alternative, News, Flash Art, Summer, page 68.
1998     CNN Television, The World Today, Inside Out Car, 26 and 27, May.
NBC Television, Good Morning America, Inside Out Car, 28, May.
Goings On About Town, Dan Devine, The New Yorker, 18, May, pages 18 and 20.
Volk, Gregory, Outside In, essay for ‘How to Turn Your Car Inside Out’ catalog, April.
1995     Cameron, Dan, Grounded, Art/Omi, catalog essay, July.
1994     Myers, Terry R., Dan Devine, Art Review, The New Art Examiner, March.

1993     M.N., Exposition de Sculptures, Le Figero (Paris), 28, December.     
Myers, Terry R., Interview with Dan Devine and Alain Kirili, le Journal de Expositions (Paris).
1992     Mashech, Joseph, Dan Devine, Art Review, Art in America, Jan. page 121.
1990     Morgan, Robert C., Electrified Aura, Nahan Contemporary, catalog essay.
1989     Westfall, Stephen, The Milky Way, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, catalog essay.
Westfall, Stephen, Dan Devine, Art Review, Art in America, April, page 269.
1988     Handy, Ellen, Dan Devine and Devin Dougherty, Arts, Oct.
1987     Ottmann, Klaus, Photomannerisms, Flash Art, Nov/Dec., pages 71and 72.
1982     Taylor, Robert, Transcendental Car Hoods by Dan Devine, The Boston Globe, 24, Aug. pg. 39.

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
1996                 Public Art Fund, Construct large scale concrete sculptures for Roots and Wings project,
New York, NY.
1993                 Public Art Fund, Metrotech Center, large scale outdoor concrete sculpture commission,
New York, NY.
1990                 Pollock/Krasner Foundation, Artist’s Support Grant.
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Sculpture.
1985/87 Bard Grant, Full Tuition for MFA Degree.        

TEACHING

1993 to Present             Chair of Sculpture Area, Department of Fine Arts, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.
2004 and 2005               Chair of Fine Arts Department, Hofstra University
1994                                         Professor of Fine Art, Seminar, University of Sweden, Umea, Sweden
1990 to 1993           Visiting Lecturer, School of Visual Arts, NYC, Pratt Institute, NYC, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT, SUNY/ Pottsdam,

RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1995 to Present       Board Member, Art/Omi International Artist’s Residency, Omi, NY
2006                       Planning Board Member, Art/Omi Scuplture Park, Omi, NY
1999 to Present       Member of Czech and Slovak Society of Arts and Sciences SVU
1999                       Chair of History of Art and Architecture Session of 30th Congress,
Czech and Slovak Society of Arts and Sciences, Washington, D.C.

PUBLISHED ARTICLE

2000                                         “Historical Misrepresentation at the Guggenheim/BMW, The Art of the
Motorcycle, Exhibition,” Art Criticism, volume 15, number 1, SUNY/
Stony Brook, editor, Donald Kuspit.

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devinestone@taconic.net
518-392-9218

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