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Daniel KasserWESTERN TECHNOSITES

introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

artist’s statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

The artifact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Patrons and suporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

exhibition staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Daniel KasserWESTERN TECHNOSITES

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Artist’s Statement as a photographer, i consider myself a regionalist . Conceptually, my photographs are inspired by my research, interactions and sentiments about the history and spirit of the Western landscape, and the technologies and mythologies that has shaped and defined its changing cultures and environments . The development of these photographs has evolved as a dialog with earlier viewpoints of the western landscape created by expeditionary and pictorial landscape photographers such as Carleton e . Watkins, andrew J . russell, edward Weston and ansel adams . These photographers were among my formative influences and development as an artist and photographer .

The Western Technosite project is organized around the themes of agriculture, water, mining, energy and transportation . The development of these large-scale technologies and systems in the american West has produced large tracts of industrial and post-industrial terrain salted with the artifacts and evidence of our optimism, symbols of our progress and the remains of our efforts to “reclaim” the wilderness in pursuit of Manifest Destiny, individual and national wealth .

The photographs are composited and composed to animate the space, scale and character of the Western landscape . They aggregate documentary and pictorial sensibilities; they are designed to hover between fact and fiction. They connote ephemeral and substantial patterns of settlement and achievement in the West . They are quiet reminders of living with a history of boom and bust, vulnerability and resilience west of the 100th meridian to the continent’s edge .

Daniel Kasser, March, 2011

THE ExHIbITION

WTS#1 Patterson37° 28’ 39.89” N121° 11’ 10.36” W200824” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#6 Holt 37° 56’ 08 N

121° 25’ 17 W2006

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WTS#7 Tulare Lake36° 36’15.55” N120° 34’ 58.12 W200624” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#9 Olancha37° 28’ 39.89” N

121° 11’ 10.36” W2006

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WTS#10 Honey Lake 40° 07’ 50.01” N120° 15’ 01.54” W200624” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#11 Titus Canyon36° 51’ 0012 N117° 04’ 00 W

200724” X 30”

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WTS#12 Los Vaqueros37° 47’ 51 N121° 40’ 57 W200624” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#14 Contra CostaLost GeotaG

200524” X 30”

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WTS#16 Stockton37° 59’ 43 N121° 15’ 44 W200524” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#25 New Melones37° 50’ 47 N

120° 23’ 05 W2006

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WTS#26 Bird’s Landing38° 07’ 28 N121° 45’ 59 W200624” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#29 Montezuma38° 06’ 54.44” N

121° 45’ 59.47” W2006

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WTS#31 Poole Station38° 09’ 50 N120° 40’ 10 W200824” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#35 Reading Claim40° 30’ 36 N

122° 31’ 45 W2008

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WTS#36 La Grange40° 44’ 08” N123 00 36 W200824” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#37 Ingot40° 47’ 39 N

122° 13’ 48 W2008

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WTS#39 Bully Hill40° 47’ 39 N122° 13’ 48 W200824” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#55 McKittrick35° 27’ 10” N

119° 41’ 58 W2008

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WTS#56 Midway35° 10’ 50” N119° 30’ 53” W200824” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#60 Harris Ranch36° 19’ 23 N

120° 14’ 05 W2008

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WTS#64 Cosumnes38° 17’ 29 N121° 22’ 31 W200824” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#65 Rancho Seco38° 20’ 05 N

121° 10’ 13 W2008

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WTS#70 Arbuckle39° 01’ 43 N122° 03’ 49 W200824” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#71 Folsom Lake38° 43’ 09 N

121° 06’ 16 W2008

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WTS#72 Malakoff39° 22’ 17 N120° 55’ 18 W200824” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#72b North Bloomfield39° 22’ 08 N

120° 54’ 35 W2008

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WTS#77 Cottonwood40° 22’ 40 N122° 17’ 07 W200824” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

WTS#78 Glenn40° 22’ 36 N

122° 17’ 01 W2008

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WTS#80 Twin Cities40° 22’ 36 N122° 17’ 01 W200824” X 30”Digital Ink Jet on Watercolor Paper

Biographic Summary

Daniel Kasser’s development as a visual artist has been, as most are, a complex evolution that reflects his formative experiences, education and inter-disciplinary interests . The arrival and development of diverse cultures and technologies on the Western american landscape has been a recurrent theme within his work as a artist for two decades .

Daniel’s photographic style has evolved from West-coast, northern California modernism, exemplified by Edward Weston and Ansel adams, toward a pictorial approach that is unique among contemporary landscape photographers interpreting the West. Critics have identified Kasser’s photographs as “constructed realities” and “mythopoetic” interpretations of the Western landscape . in Kasser’s recent works, Western Technosites, he surveys and interprets industrialized and post-industrial landscapes, challenging our expectations and perceptions of the western landscape, and its photographic traditions . Kasser’s work represents a confluence of documentary and post-conceptual art practice . He uses the constructed photograph as a narrative device to render from working landscapes, and the bounty of artifacts of technology buried within them, a symbolic terrain and a new chapter for the story of the mythic West .

Daniel received his Master of Fine arts in photography from the University of new Mexico and completed undergraduate studies at Humboldt state University and shasta College in northern California . He joined the faculty at the University of the Pacific in 1985 teaching photography, printmaking and studio art seminars . He has conducted public workshops on several aspects of photography, including his gelatin-silver printing/toning methods and digital techniques . He has undertaken historically related consultation and photographic archive projects; and, he has curated and juried several exhibitions of visual art and photography within the northern California region .

Daniel’s photographs are held by numerous private and public collections . He is a member of the Viewpoint Gallery sacramento, Ca and the Knowlton Gallery lodi, Ca where examples of his work can be viewed or collected . inquiries from this site will be directed to: Danielkasser@mac .com

EDUCATION

1992 MFa University of new Mexico albuquerque, nM

1985 Ma University of new Mexico albuquerque, nM

1980 Ba Humboldt state University arcata, Ca

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

8/84 - Present Professor of Art, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

8/02 - 1/08 Department Chair, Department of Art, University of Pacific Director, Reynolds Art Gallery, Department of Visual Art, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

11/01 - 5/02 Visiting artist/instructor . Modesto Community College, Department of art/Digital Photography

12/07 - 2/08 Pre-WasC review Program evaluator, Dominican University, Department of art, san rafael, Ca

12/06 - 2/07 evaluator, California state Bureau for Private Post-secondary & Vocational education/Brooks institute of Photography, santa Barbara, Ca

9/83 - 6/84 instructor of Photography, University of new Mexico

3/80 - 6/82 Paraprofessional associate, shasta College, redding, Ca

3/80 - 6/82 Commercial illustrator, Jhrimack Corporation, redding, Ca

1/81 - 4/81 instructor, Photo-Matt Corporation, redding, Ca

6/80 - 8/80 instructor of Photography, Upward Bound, arcata, Ca

8/90 - 6/00 Director: E. J. Washburn Photographic Gallery, Art Department, University of the Pacific. Stockton, CA

COMMUNITY/REGIONALLY-BASED PROJECTS/PUBLICATIONS

2008 architectural Tour Guide to Downtown stockton, Haggin Museum stockton, Ca

2005 Downtown stockton . arcadia Press

2004 illustrations/Multimedia presentation for Gustav Horst’s The Planets, stockton symphony atherton auditorium, san Joaquin Delta Community College .

2002 Five Mile Creek Survey, Summer Institute for the Arts, University of the Pacific

2001 Dick Kakuda Memorial Exhibition. Shasta College, Redding, CA. University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

2000 Carl Hugo Beetz, California illustrator retrospective exhibition

1998 sacramento-san Joaquin river Delta survey and Web site

1993 stockton re-Photographic survey Publications: Main street stockton, Weber Point & Vicinity Portfolio, sponsored by stockton Beautiful, Weber avenue survey Portfolio

1997 The Marjorie Webster Williams Catalog raisonne and retrospective exhibition

1997 architectural Maps and Tours of stockton, California . san Joaquin County Cultural Heritage Board

1995 The stereo era in stockton, Catalog raisonne

1993 The Weber-Murphy archive . Volume i & ii

WORKSHOPS, LECTURES & EXHIBITIONS

2010 alternatives for editing and interpreting Color Photographs with Photoshop Viewpoint Photographic art Center, sacramento, Ca

2005 Preparing artists’ Portfolios for Public art Projects and rFP’s . stockton arts Commission

2000 Juror, Member’s exhibition, sacramento Valley Photographic art Center, sacramento, Ca

1999 Conference Presenter, art, Culture, nature University of Washington, seattle, Wa .

1997 Inside the Gladding Mc Bean Studios, Washburn Gallery, University of the Pacific

1992 Director, stockton re-photographic survey Project an enduring image: a Century of stockton Photographers . 1850-1950 Haggin Museum, stockton, Ca .

1991 Workshop Presenter, selective Toning Techniques for Black &White Printers . The Darkroom, sacramento, Ca allegory and the still life in Contemporary Photography . lodi art league, lodi Ca .

1990 Documents & Metaphors in the atomic age: The History of new Mexico, society of Photographic education national Conference, santa Fe, nM

SELECTED ONE PERSON AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Western Technosites, russell Day Gallery, everett Community College, everett Wa . artifacts of Technology, Photographs and sculpture, Thorndike Gallery, southern Oregon University, ashland, Or

2010 Man Made: engineered landscapes, Knowlton Gallery, lodi Ca Western Technosites, Photographs and sculpture, reynolds Gallery Jeannette Powell Art Center, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA Western Technosites, Firehouse Gallery, rogue river Community College, Grants Pass, Or

2009 artist’s Choice, Knowlton Gallery, lodi Ca . 24th . Tallahassee international, Museum of Fine arts, Florida state University, Tallahassee, Fl . Western Technosites, Haag Gallery, sacramento, Ca . Western Technosites, Merced Cultural Center, Merced, Ca . international Center for Fine art Photography, The Mind’s eye, Fort Collins, CO . larson Gallery, 36th annual national Photography exhibition, Yakima, Wa . Borders, Boundaries and ranges, Utah state University state, logan, Ut . Crocker-Kingsley 75, Crocker Museum, sacramento, Ca . santa Cruz Cultural Center, Double exposure, santa Cruz, Ca .

2008 new Works, California state Fair, sacramento, Ca .

2007 international Center for Fine art Photography, Ft . Collins, CO . Fall and Winter scenes: Flatlands and Foothills Haggin Museum, stockton, Ca .

2006 View Point Photographic art Center, symbolic Terrain, sacramento, Ca Knowlton Gallery, still life, lodi, Ca . Knowlton Gallery, lodi, Ca . Paint lodi

2005 Ten regional Photographers . Photosource, sacramento, Ca annual Member’s exhibition, View Point Gallery

1998 The art of Gladding Mc Bean, sMUD Gallery, sacramento, Ca

1992 Toledo Museum of art, Toledo, OH Valparaiso Museum of art, Valparaiso, in

1989 University of new Mexico, albuquerque, nM

1987 Film in the Cities, st . Paul, Mn light Work Gallery, sacramento, Ca everett Community College, everett, Wa

1986 redding art Museum, redding, Ca Meditations on the History of new Mexico, shasta College art Gallery, redding, Ca

1985 new Mexico state University, las Cruces, nM

1984 Introductions: University Center Art Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

1981 notes for Future reference, shasta College art Gallery, redding, Ca

1980 industrial Facades and Cause and affect . Humboldt state University, arcata Ca

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS lodi Memorial Hospital, lodi Ca

st . Joseph’s Medical Center, stockton, Ca Crocker art Museum, sacramento, Ca Kaiser Permanente, stockton, Ca University of new Mexico, albuquerque, nM University of Oklahoma, norman, OK shasta College, redding, Ca redding art Museum, redding, Ca new Mexico state University, las Cruces, nM Margery Mann Collection, Humboldt state University arcata, Ca

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

list available upon request .

WEB SITE

http://www .Danielkasser .com

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