Ann Daly (aka) Ann Burke Daly is a visual artist who lives in New York City, and has exhibited in the U.S. and abroad. She is the recipient of a John Anson Kittredge Foundation grant supporting current work on Anti-monuments:Versailles (A-view, A-wry) and In and around Felipe's Country Haunt (Re-Staging Grandpa's Garden).

Her current project, comprised of photographs and video work investigates a haptic and distorted space and temporality in garden and landscape architecture, emphasizing melancholy, contradiction, and loss through the archive and an excess of traces, an excess of the index. Loss and absence are multiplied in the work through ordering, entropy, the excessive ornamentation on display at the sites and in the work—and through the technological specificity of photography. Out of her earlier project, The Automaton Olympia's Cabinet of Curiosities (Collecting Anxieties), Daly articulates a view of the garden as the cabinet of curiosities turned inside out, a place where collecting, taxonomy, and self-making occur through ordering, display and the inevitable failure of these systems to contain or domesticate their objects. Daly's interest is in how physically and psychologically these scripted-spaces resist domestication as entropy, uncontrollable excess, and the materiality of time and historical circumstance, exert their force.

Daly is an alum of the Yale School of Art and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her practice has included Photography, Video, Sound, and Sculptural Installations. Anti-monuments has not yet seen significant exhibition, although a portion of its early manifestation was included in Jochen Gerz’ Anthology of Art Exhibitions, catalog, book, and website project. and through publication in Cabinet Magazine. Her earlier work, The Automaton Olympia’s Cabinet of Curiosities (Collecting Anxieties), has been written about or reviewed in Artforum and PAJ/Performing Arts Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Artpress International, and others. Daly participated in a roundtable discussion reconsidering Francesca Woodman’s work organized by Margaret Sundell (with Sundell, George Baker, Nancy Davenport, and Laura Larson) which was published in The Art Journal.

Select Pulications | Reviews

Performing Arts Journal, "Decoration and Detection: Ann Burke Daly" (Ann Daly), exhibition review byGeorge Baker, exhibition review, issue 57 (download pdf)

The Automaton Olympia's Cabinet of Curiosities: Ann Burke Daly, catalog,"Decoration and Detection: Ann Burke Daly", essay George Baker (pdf, excerpt), Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, New York

Multiplier catalog excerpt (pdf), "Beauty will be Compulsive: Ann Burke Daly and Nancy Davenport", Jennifer Gonzalez, publisher: La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Quebec

Artforum International,"Narrative Urge", exhibition review George Baker (pdf)

ArtPress International, "Narrative Urge at the Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden", John Peter Nilsson, Paris, exhibition review.(pdf, excerpt).

Cabinet Magazine, Issue 6, Anti-Monuments (Versailles), artists project pages, published by Immaterial Inc., Brooklyn, New York

Art Journal No.2, "Francesca Woodman reconsidered: a conversation with George Baker, Ann Daly, Nancy Davenport, Laura Larson, and Margaret Sundell", Roundtable organized by Margaret Sundell.

The Los Angeles Times, "The Mourning After", Claudine Ise, review (pdf)

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (catalog), The Mourning After, Susette Min, Los Angeles

Narrative Urge Exhibition Brochure, Catsou Roberts, curator, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden

For more images and information on the work, please see annburkedaly.net
contact@anndaly.info