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PRESS RELEASE for immediate release NAB Gallery: 1117 West Lake Street, Chicago, IL 60607 Contact: Craig A. Anderson (312) 738-1620 E-mail: nabgallery@sbcglobal.net " T HERE " JB Daniel + Ben Dallas NAB Gallery and The Lobby Gallery are pleased to present a special collaborative exhibition to open the fall gallery season. Artists JB Daniel and Ben Dallas will bridge the geographic distance between the exhibition spaces through conceptual and technological interventions at both the Lobby and NAB galleries, in an exhibition appropriately titled, “T HERE”. OPENS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2005 with a reception for the artists from 4 to 7 PM. The public is invited and it is free. The exhibit will be open to the public Saturdays, from 12 to 5 PM and by appointment through October 15, 2005. A CLOSURE will be held from 2 to 5 PM. Join us for the opening reception: Saturday, Sept. 10th, 4 - 7:00 p.m. Ben Dallas and JB Daniel are artists that share the same sensibility when identifying visions that provoke, or confound the viewer when it comes to art or life. As Dallas states, ”Significant art surprises and confounds us by escaping conventionalized appearances or identities devised to accomplish some specified purpose; this includes the conventions of art itself.” And JB Daniel boldly asserts, ”My work questions the conventions that hold the obvious in place. I use non-traditional materials in constructing what I term as "conceptual objects" in an attempt to undermine what we know and how we know - to give way to something more alive and less constrained than the usual/always. I believe the process of doing/undoing brings everything into question, including art, and makes a place for new mythology.” Ben Dallas has degrees from Indiana University and the University of Illinois and is represented in five art galleries. He has been a Lecturer at the National Gallery of Art and a Professor at Harper College. Mr. Dallas has won many awards and fellowships including a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship and an Artist in Residence in Berlin. Among some of the collaborative projects, Dual Application Agency (DAA), which was started, with Burleigh Kronquist explores the possibilities of working simultaneously to make images that are of “shared authorship.” JB Daniel has studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with participation in over twenty individual and group shows. Mr. Daniel’s 3 7 d e g r e e s of 2000 seems to integrate the philosophical/found object layers found in his work for a metaphorical approach. This is best expressed in his description of the project “The ‘contingent reality’ created by the whole of the combined layers is what interests me. As our realities are based on our perceptions (in a sense - layers) and as such I believe we create our own ‘contingent realities.’ The visual metaphors used in the work mimic this human condition. Each layer has the idea of truth and falseness. Each layer relies on the other. The building of the reality is key. The idea of the whole being more than the sum of the parts is evident in the final view where a realization takes place, supporting the notion of truth (a perceived truth) within a frame (ourselves).” The collaboration of this project brings together two fine minds to work on connections between two disparate spaces found in relative proximity to the possibilities of dual relativism of simultaneously multi-layered thought and expression in a quasi-aesthetical way. Additional information is available on NAB Gallery’s web site - www.nabgallery.org