Dagley engages familiar tropes of geometric painting and supergraphics--dots, stripes, sine curves, and systematic progressions--often taking them to extremes of physical practice. He has also been exploring unusual and/or low-budget means of mechanical production for several decades. This investigation eventually led the artist back to the craft shops he frequented in his youth. Colored glass, popsicle sticks, yarn, play-doh and hobby kits are among the various humble materials to be found in Dagley’s multifarious creations.

This exhibition is the first of several slated for 2007-08 that will either include or exclusively feature work by Mark Dagley. One of his recent “Benton prints” will be part of a summer group show at The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences (curated by Starr Figura, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, MoMA). An “online painting” will be displayed in Escape from New York at Australia’s Sydney Non Objective (curated by Matthew Deleget) later in the season. Dagley’s premier solo exhibit in London will take place this autumn at Up&Co, and in winter a select group of his paintings, sculpture and drawings from the late 80’s will be presented at Minus Space in Brooklyn.