Daniel Duford:
The Traveler and the Housewife & Deluxe Edition
Exhibition Statement
Daniel Duford spent the month of May 2013 as an artist in residence at the Center for the Visual Arts, Southern Oregon University. During his time in Ashland, Duford conceived of and executed a large portion of the work installed at the Schneider Museum of Art in this exhibition. About this work, Duford writes:
The Traveler and the Housewife is a fifteen-page large-scale woodcut comic. The story follows two separated lovers. One goes abroad spreading death and returns altered. The other remains rooted, digging deep into the mythic soil of her home. The diaristic text belies the mythic imagery. The Traveler and the Housewife is part meditation of separation and change and part metaphor for the Columbian Exchange – the mingling of culture, flora and fauna between the Old and New Worlds.
Duford’s residency was part of an inaugural Artist-in-Residency Program that was generously supported by The Ford Family Foundation, Roseburg. Artists selected to participate in the Artist-in-Residency Program each received a one-person gallery exhibition in the Schneider Museum of Art to showcase their residency work.
Artist
Daniel Duford
