2006

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David Daniels is the Frank Lloyd Wright of inner architecture, and I'm honored he's been my mentor and guide since 1972. His New York City gallery exhibition is featured in today's The New York Times, "Art in Review," Page B27. Here's an excerpt of the review by Holland Cotter:

STREET POETS & VISIONARIES
Selections from the UbuWeb Collection
Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery
621 West 27th Street, Manhattan
Through Oct. 14

Poetry readings should be weekly events in Chelsea: say, every Saturday afternoon, to catch maximum art district foot traffic, with various galleries rotating as hosts. New writing would benefit from the new audience, new art would benefit from an infusion of live energy, and Chelsea itself might be lifted from its present lackluster and anodyne condition.

Poetry is the right description for the text-based work that Kenneth Goldsmith has assembled for a group exhibition at Oliver Kamm. About half the show is made up of printed poems by David Daniels, a West Coast artist now in his 70's. The work is narrative and personal, incantatory in tone, and lies within an old tradition of shaped poetry. Imagine a cross of George Herbert's poems in the forms of angels and altars with Burroughs, Blake and the harmonies and fractures of jazz. The poems in the gallery are just a sampling of a much larger body of work that can be found on Mr. Daniels's Web site: www.thegatesofparadise.com.

Most of the rest of the show is anonymous urban "outsider" material picked up over the years . . . .

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Here's David's obituary and photograph . . . He's not actually dead, though I wanted to write it in case I die first! Look what happened to Gurdjieff. He died when I was two.

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