Artist description In Dagley's work, a premise that could have originated in a late '60s art education textbook ("make a spiral of circles using primary colors") becomes a Herculean ritual of self-imposed labor. Thousands of dots growing from a few millimeters in the canvas's center to a mere inch and a half at its outer edge coil outward in an undeviating sequence of red-blue-yellow, red-blue-yellow, red-blue-yellow. Rocking the eyes like a Bridget Riley, the work has a temporal aspect--and edge of monomania--largely absent from '60s Op. (Tom Moody)

Artist History B. in 1957 and raised in Washington D.C. In 1979, after studying sculpture and painting at the Corcoran School of Art and the Boston Museum School, Dagley moved to New York. His first solo exhibition took place in 1986, at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery. Paintings from this exhibition were purchased by the German chocolate manufacturer Dr. Peter Ludwig and by the Eli Broad Family Foundation. During the 1980’s, Dagley exhibited frequently in Amsterdam, Madrid, Düsseldorf, Milan and many other European cities. In 1993 Dagley had his first Museum exhibition at the Kunstverein St. Gallen, Switzerland. In the same year, Dagley received his first major commission from Hoffman/LaRoche Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland: two wall reliefs, nine-foot square, which were installed in their new office building outside of Basel. In 1994 a work was purchased by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. Two years later, a painting from Dagley’s second (1987) New York exhibition was added to the collection of the Museum des Beaux Arts, La Chaux de Fonds Switzerland.

Press Reviews -- but this is the kind of show where the visual noise between the paintings is as much a feature as the names you read and try to remember. More, really.A Demolition Derby of Art By Tim Porges (Originally published in THE OCTOPUS, January 15-21 1999) Linker, Kate ARTFORUM review December, 1987, page 115 Garcia, Angel Gonzalez: "Ensenar Al Que No Sabe" CAMBIO 16, December 9, 1988 Page 88 Schwartz, Bill: "On Samenessness" Catalogue Text, Gallery Mar Estrada 1988 Serraller, F.Calvo: "El arte y la vida coma es" EL PAIS December 10, 1988 Costa, Jose Manuel: ABC December 18, 1988 Page 18 Fernandez-Cid, Miguel: Mark Dagley: Ironia y Distancia" GUIA DE MADRID December 1988 Page 81 Collado, Gloria: "Pintura-Objecto" GUIA DEL OCHIO December 1988 Page 49 Ruiz, Betriz Ferandez: "Revision Ironia de los Sesenta" December 1988 Maderuelo, Javier: "El Triunfo del Simulacro" IL INDEPENDENTE December 1988 Page 12 Unknown: "La Emocion de la Geometria" EL PUNTO December 1988 Brea, Jose Luis: FLASH ART INTERNATIONAL March/April 1989 Page 127 Messler, Nobert" "Una Hora Antes" Catalogue Text Museo Municipal de Bellas Arts, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain Humeltenberg, Hanna: "Ritt durch die Moderne" RHEINISCHE POST April 28, 1989 Humeltenberg, Hanna: "Interview mit Mark Dagley" NIKE 30 NOV/DEC 1989 Page 10-11 Cirone, Enzo: "Go Avanti" Catalogue Text Galeria Chisel Milano, Italy Conti, Viana: "Descrizione della Scrittura come Interrogative sull opera" Catalogue Text Galeria Chisel, Genova, Italy 1989 Unknown: TESSINER ZEITUNG "Agenda" September 9, 1989 Unknown: CORRIERE DEL TICINO "Astrattisti in mostra da oggi a Carabietta" Bonet, Juan Manuel: "Forma Corte e Ironia" ABC November 9 1990 Page 45 De Castro, Maria Antonia: "EL PAIS" November 3, 1990 Fernandez, Horacio; "Un pintor sabio "METROPOL" # 25 November 1990 M.J.: "La Galeria Pedro Pizzarro presenta la muestra Exposicion # 49" DIARO SUR MALAGA, September 15, 1991 Miranda, Julian: "Intensa busqueda del espacio" EL INDEPENDIENTE November 12, 1990 E.P.: "Dagley, Constructer Radical" ELPERDIODICO DE ARAGON October 21, 1991 Murria, Alicia: "El artista impuro" D16 November 16, 1991 Zophoniasson-Bailerl, Ulrike: GASLER ZEITUNG June 13, 1992 Kosinski, Dorothy, M: "Mark Dagley profile" ARTIS September 1992 Bourdon, David: "Seeing it all or six weeks in Manhattan Galleries" ART IN AMERICA, September 1992 Jocks, Heinz Norbert: "Das nein und das Ja eines puritaners" WESTDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, September 15, 1992 Tjardes, Ilse: "Kanton und Farben" Mark Dagley bei Strelow RHEINISCHE POST September 19 1992 Unknown: DIE OSTSCHWEIZ: " Schwanken zwischen Maleria und Objekt" August 23, 1993 Muller, Thomas: "Am Nellpunkt der Malerei" ST GALLER TAGBLATT August 25, 1993 Kurzmeyer, Roman: "Mark Dagley ARTIS September 1993 Page 36-39 Villarrocha, Vicenta: "Vangardia y Clascismo" Zaragoza November 1991 Conti, Viana: "Conversation with Mark Dagley" Catalogue text Austellungstraum, Basel 1992 Haefeli, Peter: "Bodies" Interview Catalogue text Florez, Fernando: "El otro lado del cuadro" DAIRO 16 June 1994 Dagley "Zero Degree" ROGUE Frankfurt June 1993 Page 3 Mosset, Olivier: "Letter to Mark Dagley" Published by Kunstverein St Gallen, Switzerland August 1993 Stals, Jose le Brero: FLASH ART Vol.XXVI No. 173 Page 115 Blanco, Iris: DA Review 1994 Tenerife, Spain Unknown: EL DIA September 1994. Tenerife Spain Unknown: LA GACETA DE CANARIAS, March 15 1995 "Barras y Estrellas" Canary Islands, Spain Unknown: EL DIA March 16 1995 Canary Islands, Spain Bertrana, Carlos diaz, Stars and Stripes" Catalogue Text Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, Canary Islands Spain 1995 Schwitzer, Joachim: "Radical und schon" THURGAUER VOLKSFREUND 1/4/96 Martin, Kraft: "An den Wurzeln de Malerei" TAGS ANZEIGER 12/23/95 Schauffelberg, Peter E,: "Color and Paint" SUDKURIER Nr. 291 December 16, 1995 Mettler, Louis: Color and Paint" APPENZELLER ZEITUNG December 9, 1995 Mettler. Louis: Color and Paint" DIE OSTSCHWEIZ December 11, 1995 Badrutt, Ursula: "Wenn Malerei sich selbst refleckiert" ST. GALLER TAGBLATT December 11, 1995 Schwitzer, Joachim: "Back to the roots" KULTURE-BLATTER No. 413/414 St. Gallen Switzerland Unknown: "Radical Maleria im Kunstmuseum" December 12, 1995 Unknown: "Radical Maleria in St. Gallen" NIDWALDNER ZEITUNG December 13, 1995 Unknown: "Die Radikalen in St. Gallen" LINTH ZEITUNG December 1, 1995 Unknown: "Color and Paint-Radical Malerei" NEUES WILDER TAGBLATT December 8, 1995 Unknown: "Als Auftakt Color and Paint" DER VOLKSFREUND December 13, 1995 Unknown: "Color and Paint- Radical Malerei" TELETEXT SCHWEIZ December 8, 1995 Unknown: "Radical Painting" DIE WOCHENZEITUNG December 8, 1995 Unknown: "Radical Malerei aus Ostschweizer Privatbesitz" December 8, 1995 Moody, Tom: ARTFORUM September 1996 Page 112 Moody, Tom: VERY #3 "Op art in the 90's" page 26 and 27 1998 Robinson, Walter: ARTNET http://www.artnet.com December 1996 Page 15 Jocks, Heinz: "Metaphysik der Formen" WESTDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG March 4, 1997 Kino, Carol: "Op 'til you drop" TIME OUT NY June 25/July 2 1998 Page 57 Bell,J, Bowyer: "Op at Up" REVIEW June 15, 1998 Page 25 and 26 Unknown: "Collection profile of A.Ruiz de la Prada" NUEVO ESTILO # 242 page 134 Unknown: "Alan Uglow and Mark Dagley LA GACETA May 29 1998 Unknown: "Alan Uglow and Mark Dagley DIARIO DE AVISOS MAY 1998 Yood, James: "Post- Hypontic" ARTFORUM March 1999 Page 12 Porges, Tim: "A Demolition Derby of Art" THE OCTOPUS January 15-21 1999 Page 11

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