Daniel Pfalzgraf is a multi-media and installation artist who has been exhibiting his work professionally for over twelve years. He is currently the Director of The Green Building Gallery and the Director of Media Services at B. Deemer Gallery in Louisville.
Can you tell me a bit about your involvement in LVAA’s Food For Thought?
I see my involvement with this program as me really just being the excuse for people to come out the Greenhaus and experience some incredible delicacies. Sarah Stalker from LVAA was given the green light to take over this edition of “Food for Thought” and she has been doing her best to really blow it up into an amazing event. Historically FFT has been where an artist gives a lecture about their work, and the audience listens and eats a nice lunch. Well, this time the event has been taken off site (to Greenhaus) and is being held on a weekend in the evening (instead of a week day afternoon). I will still be taking the usual part of the featured artist up front giving a presentation about my past and current work, but now people will also get to experience bourbon tastings, coffee from Argo Sons, chocolate from Cellar Door and food from Eiderdown. I basically hope to give the audience a deeper understanding into what, how, and why I do the work that I do by showing some past work, talking about my subject matter and materials, and by giving a brief demonstration of the blind contour drawing I do. This format really allows me to give viewers more information for understanding my work than can usually be accomplished with very brief one-on-one interactions during opening night receptions.
Can you tell me a bit about yourself?
I basically am someone who has been involved in art all my life. Art has kind of run through my family in various ways from my grandfather, to my father and to my siblings and me. But we’ve all taken it in different directions and so far I am the only one to really take it into the realm of fine art galleries. I’ve been creating for as long as I can remember, got a BFA in sculpture and drawing from Murray State University, moved to Atlanta to work at the Bill Lowe Gallery, moved back here to work at the Speed Art Museum, and have been working the past five years at B. Deemer Gallery. I am now starting the next chapter of my professional life as the director of The Green Building Gallery (gbg), and will be splitting my time between there and B. Deemer. Locally, I am represented at Swanson Contemporary. Currently I have been working on a series of portraits of the 9-11 hijackers. I start with doing blind contour drawings of them, then paint them in with oil paint and old used motor oil. I’ll be having my next show of this work at Swanson Contemporary late next year.
Can you tell us about your new position at The Green Building? How you got there and your hopes for the future?
My new position at gbg is the director. Gill Holland and Stephanie Brothers have been running the space since before The Green Building ever existed and the gallery was known as Gallery NuLu located where Tim Faulkner Gallery now is. Amber Garvey, the former gallery director, transitioned to a new role at TGB in early 2011, and with everything they have going on there, I think they were looking for someone who could come in and work the gallery and keep that aspect of the building’s operation running and vibrant to allow them to focus on the other businesses at The Green Building. I have been working in galleries and museums for the past dozen years or so and had been independently curating exhibits around the city for the past couple years as LoCAL.gallery, but had been looking for a more stable, consistent space to put together shows. It basically just works out as the perfect partnership for everyone involved.
Now I will basically be in charge of the running of the gallery. Finding artists, selecting work for shows, installing, shipping, promoting, sales, etc. It’s a lot of everything that I have already been doing for quite some time now, but now I’ll be the one on top making all the decisions and forming everything to coincide with my own personal vision. It’s all very exciting (and a little bit nerve rattling) knowing that everything’s all on me.
Given how there are so many great galleries in Louisville that have a lock on the top talent around here, I don’t want to compete with them for the already established artists. My goal is to bring in a combination of young, fresh, unrepresented artists as well as top talent from outside of the region that audiences here haven’t been able to experience. I truly want to become a dealer that is mentioned anytime anyone talks about art in Louisville, Kentucky, then eventually spread my circle of influence throughout the region and, God willing, one day become one of the top dealers in the nation. It may seem like a far-fetched goal, but it’s something that I will none the less work towards everyday that I can.
Are your other LoCal projects still active? Does that tie into your work at The Green Building?
I plan on merging a number of my LoCAL.gallery projects I already had in the works into the gbg exhibition schedule. There were already a couple group shows on the schedule for next year, so I added a few solo exhibits and moved a food-themed exhibit I had been working on until later next fall. I had also been collecting artists for a show centered around domestic life issues that was a LoCAL.gallery project, but plan on holding that at gbg in 2013 now. I think it is important to mix up solo shows with two and three person shows and broader groups shows, just to spice things up a little.
Once I get settled in and on a comfortable schedule, I think I may still put together smaller off site events under the LoCAL.gallery umbrella.
Any interesting facts about yourself you want our readers to know?
When I’m not busy in the art world, one of my most favorite things to do is skateboarding with my eight year old son, Gabe, and a bunch of other old-timers like me. I also just recently started playing soccer again (playing goalie for the first time in about twenty years). I play on a team with my older brother and sister, which is really fun since it’s the first time all three of us have ever played on one team together before.
Catch Daniel at LVAA’s Food For Thought After Dark, on Saturday January 14th, 2012 at 8pm. January’s edition of After Dark will be held at Greenhaus, 2227 S. Preston Street.
Food For Thought is a monthly event held by the Louisville Visual Art Association that gives the community an opportunity to listen to a lecture from an artist. The evening will begin with wine and bourbon tastings, coffee pour-overs from Argo Sons, chocolate tastings from Cellar Door, and food from Eiderdown. Pfalzgraf’s presentation will begin at 8:30. There are a limited amount of tickets available, which are $10 for LVAA members and $15 for non-members. Purchase your tickets by calling or visiting the LVAA (502.896.2146) or Greenhaus (502.636.4141).
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