ARTIST'S BOOKS
Drafts: Letters Unsent
Vol. XVII, Roman Nvmerals Books
by Ann Burke Daly
In a blurring of the genres of memoir and fiction, Ann Burke Daly's Drafts: Letters Unsent, is a meditation on the narrator’s detective work, through unsent letters, which struggle with the aftermath of 20th Century wars, for her family and regarding their roles. Radical doubt regarding documents, particularly photographs, and the active dynamic of interpretation, underscores the role of desire and psychological projection through this forensic search from snippets of narrative, papers, photographs, language, stories. Published by Roman Nvmerals of Brooklyn, New York.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Thomas J. Watson Collection | 2021 — Daly's artist book "Drafts: Letters Unsent" is held in the collection.
Box of Fiction
Vol. LVII, Roman Nvmerals Books
by Ann Burke Daly
Daly’s Box of Fiction, is a photographic essay on the uncanny afterlife of objects, photographs, narratives, and biographies inherited through material and verbal fragments, and of the act of documenting—as in a crime scene— the contents of a cardboard box discovered a decade after the death of the artist’s mother. For Daly, the work of interpretation does not rest, rather it remains agitated within a palimpsest of silencing surrounding catastrophic family events. Published by Roman Nvmerals of Brooklyn, New York.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Thomas J. Watson Collection | 2021 — Daly's artist book "Box of Fiction," is held in the collection.
Museum of Modern Art, NY, Library Collection, Artists' Books | 2021 — Daly's artist book "Box of Fiction," is here.
EXHIBITION CATALOGS
The Automaton Olympia's Cabinet of Curiosities
Ann Burke Daly
Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York City, 1996
Catalog published in conjunction with eponymous solo exhibition.
Description:
The Automaton Olympia's Cabinet of Curiosities. Exhibition Catalog for eponymous solo exhibition of installation artworks, in October and November of 1996 in New York City. Images and essay correspond to Installation works comprised of Sculpture; Objects found, made and altered; Wax Castings; Polaroid Photographs; Pencil Drawings on Vellum; Multi-Channel asynchronous Video (still real-time) and Sound Art (scripted spoken narration). Title page states: October 19-November 24, 1996 : Ann Daly / [essay, George Baker]. In the mid to late 1990s, Linda Kirkland Gallery was located at 504 W. 22nd Street, 3rd fl, NY, NY 10010. Offset print publication.
The book is held in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY, Library and The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) Library and Research Collection. Links below.
MoMA NY Library, RN b613789
NMWA Library, No.25183
Book: Monograph
Publisher: Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York City, 1996
Includes essay, "Decoration and Detection" by George Baker
The Imaginary Zone
Ann Burke Daly
Publisher: WSW, Rosendale, NY, 1993
In conjunction with eponymous concurrent Hudson Valley, NY solo exhibitions at WSW and Vassar College Palmer Gallery
Description:
Book contains an essay by Faye Hirsch entitled "Ann Daly's Mistaken Identities." Interior text states catalog funders, Art Matters and Vassar College (Salmon Fund for faculty research), in conjunction with an exhibition at The Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. Images document performative Installation artworks comprised of Polaroid photographs and steel pins. Title Page: "Catalog of an exhibition held at the Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York, July 24-Aug. 21, 1993. Works are part of Aberrant Flesh, an ongoing photography project." Includes bibliographical references. Offset printed publication contains duotone images.
Publisher: WSW, 1993
Essay "Ann Daly's Mistaken Identities," by Faye Hirsch
Book: Monograph
University of Toronto Fine Arts Library
OCLC : 234073620
