DAN MCDERMOTT : The Lumiere Project

6 Sep-22 Sep 2013

Overview

McDermott is a painter of the overlooked. The painter’s extensive body of work is drawn from an expanding archive of images, frozen frames from film and television, emotionally resonant from their entrapment within the decades in which they were born and forgotten. The Lumière Project is an on-going investigation that started in 2010 and consists of paintings, photographs, prints, and moving image. All the work is based on a common source - photographic frames taken from one of the earliest examples of cinema ‒ The Lumière Brothers’ Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, 1895. This short piece of film lasting less than one minute shows a train pulling into a station in France and people entering and alighting. McDermot is interested in what could be called the “present moment- ness” of these past events captured on film.