Daniel Mirer         601 26th Street 18th Floor, Computer Room#2 S>N (from the "ArchitorSpace" project), 2002 c-print, mounted on aluminum 30 x 40 inches             Ground FL, Tampere Finland (from the "ArchitorSpace" project), 2002 c-print, mounted on aluminum 30 x 40 inches     ArchitorSpace is an examination of architecture and its interior spaces. The photographs are examples of the uneasiness one has in public enclosed environments. These environments are where rooms and corridors link to other spaces of passages but are examples of space designed not for any specific use but are the simple zones of non-activity, leaving you open to the scrutiny of others. Subway tunnels or office corridors are areas particularly banal and commonplace yet evokes feeling of familiarity. These sites within the images architecturally reveal no history, identity or functionality, which has become so common in a post-industrial society.           national atomic museum, kirland air force base, albuquerque, NM, 1998 from the "Indifferent West" series 20 x 20 inches photograph     Indifferent West is a photographic series that investigates the western landscape and its continual appropriation of a mythic frontier, developed by private, military, and entertainment industries. The western deserts are considered as the one landscape that traditionally never had a specific use but which is viewed and used by traditional European-style ecocentric concepts of "landscape." The notion of an untamed, hostile wilderness, seeming lifeless and void is wapped up in myth attending to what is called the American west. It is a place where the Lone Ranger, Marlboro Man and the "noble savage" were invented and where they continue to reside in our collective, cultural unconscious. The photographs represent America's West where the romantic constructions about the land, people, and the institutions that perpetuate them. Through this project, I photograph the found and sentimental representations of the mythic frontier. The images are of landscape that are of the familiar and cliché that cite the lack of the picturesque image...     Education Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx , NY, 1998 Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York, NY, 1996-97 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. Master of Fine Arts in Photography, 1992 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography, 1989 Scholarships and Fellowships 1988 Dana Artist Fellowship, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. renewed in 1989. 1986 National Talent Search Scholarship, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 4 year scholarship. Group and Selected Exhibitions 2000 Indifferent West, Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX 1999 Your I, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard Collage, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY curated by Judy Kim Zone of Risibility, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated and catalogue by Carrie Cooperider 1998 Gender (Con)sumption / Assumption of Gender, Stony Brook Union Art Gallery, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, organized by Michael Kimmel Artists in the Marketplace: Eighteenth Exhibition, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx , NY curated and catalogue by Marysol Nieves and Lydia Yee Site of Asia, Site of Body, Taipei Gallery, New York, NY, curated and catalogue by Hsiao-ning Tu Indifferent West, William Street Gallery, FOTOFEST International, Houston, TX, curated by Wendy Watriss 1997 New Masculinities, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, curated and catalog by Michael DeVoll Gun as Image, Florida State University, Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, FL, curated by George Blakely 1996 Inherit the Patriarch, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY. Who do you think you are? Center for curatorial Studies Museum, Bard Collage, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, curated by William Stover 1995 (Dis) Oriented, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery & Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY, curated and catalog by Margo Machida 1994 Beyond the Label, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT., curated by Julia Ballerini Material Concerns, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Marie Keller 1993 Will You Go Out With Me?, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, curated by Sara Kellner Interior Dialogues, Montage '93: Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY. International Festival of the Image 1992 Counterweight: Resistance, Alienation, Assimilation, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, curated and catalog by Joan Hugo & Sondra Hale Bibliography / Work Cited Fotophili "Indifferent West," Seven images reproduce, Fall 1999, No. 32 The Georgia Review "Indifferent West," Eight images reprouce, The University of Georgia Press, Summer 1999 Vol LIIV No. 5 Review Magazine "expositions" Zone of Risibility by Matt Freedman, Feb 15th 1999 p.11-12 Zone of Risibility, Carrie Cooperider (exhibition catalogue w/repro.) The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Feb.1999 NY Arts Magazine, Bi-coastal Studio Visits, Focusing on Photography by Lauri Firstenberg, w/repro. #28 January 1999 p.26 CAA News, "Emerging Artists Featured" vol.23, No. 6, Nov.1998 pg.6 New York Times, "Art in Review" One museum, five shows and a million lives and passions, by Holland Cotter, Aug.14, 1998 Artists in the Marketplace, Eighteenth Annual Exhibition, Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx , NY (exhibition catalogue w/repro.) July 1998 ARTnews, "Site of Asia / Site of Body," by Cynthia Nadelman, Vol.97 #7 July,August 1998 p.160 New York Times, "Art in Review," Site of Asia / Site of Body, by Holland Cotter, April 24, 1998 Why Asia?, Coemporary Asian and Asian American Art, Writings by Alice Yang, Edited by Jonathan Hay and Mimi Young, New York University Press "Disorienting Territories" p. 73 April 1998
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