Daniel.Zeese@gmail.com

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Daniel Zeese is an artist, designer, and educator practicing in New York. Daniels latest work explores populations, belonging, and identity within an urban environment.

Daniels work investigates what it means to be within civilization while on the edge of the wilderness. Outnumbered, on the fringe of what is accepted in the city, celebrated from a distance, and threatened to exile by the powers of the majority. Daniel reacts to the continuing history of violence within cities against the people who, while defining the cultural identity of a place, are often misunderstood, attacked and objectified. Later we experience the outcome, the resulting martyrdom, through the master cultural narrative.

Currently Daniel is producing two bodies of work in tandem. "Cube Moon" explores a world in which we reshape the moon to examine ideas of gender, time, religion, the concept of fullness or fulfillment and emptiness which we have always accepted as truths. In which a team of construction worker/astronauts go to the moon to reshape it into a cube. "Full Size Model" is a series of altered colonial style benches which seek to reform the institutions of taught and proscribed knowledge.

Daniel received a Bachelors of Fine Arts, Sculpture, from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2010 and a Masters in Architecture from Boston Architectural College in 2016. Daniel has worked internationally directing the design of major installations in the public realm for the art studio of Janet Echelman since 2012. Daniel has completed residencies and shown internationally and is currently a staff artist at The Vermont Studio Center.