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Installation - Pyrite Princes

The Latcham Gallery, Feb. 25 - April 7, 2012

 

Choosing a cameo format for his subjects, artist Daniel Colby pays homage to the royal portrait and the antique photo-card while also alluding to memorial photos often found on antique headstones.

Daniel Colby: "I like the idea of capturing something fleeting, something that will be lost, even if it is only to allow for a new and different chapter, [a different] phase of life... there is still a loss with elements to be mourned and celebrated."

Coming of age as a young man can be an emotionally charged time when conflicting feelings and motivations collide. Heady blends of beauty and awkwardness, sensitivity and aggression, along with anxiety and bravado generate a climate that is steeped with the possibility of failure while simultaneously holding great promise of potential successes to come.

In his suite of intensely rendered portraits of ficitional characters Colby invites us to investigate the emotional landscape surrounding this period. Whether we are a woman or a man, it is difficult to resist being drawn in to their uncertain world.

Are their golden laurel crowns announcing the possibility of great achievement or is it just youthful swagger reflecting feelings of invulnerability found so easily in those coming of age? Their gaze, at once vulnerable and defiant, Colby's figures present an image of masculine identity being forged in the ephemeral period between adolescence and adulthood.

 

–Chai Duncan, curated at the Latcham Gallery, 02/2012

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