DANIEL BOUTHOT

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My interests lie in creating conceptually-based installations for non-traditional sites.  Recent works appropriate an extant object and modify it, thus often escaping immediate discovery and, when found, leaving the viewer unsure as to their status as a work of art.  In blending into the environment and going unnoticed (if only temporarily), these works reflect my broader interest in complicating the line between art and everyday life by finding new means of inserting art into life.

American artist Daniel Bouthot (b. 1982 Maine) creates large and small scale, site-based sculptures that have been exhibited in a variety of locations including galleries, sculpture parks, libraries, and even a cemetery.  Working without a studio, he maintains a transient art practice traveling often to New York, throughout the northeast, and most recently to Minneapolis to do projects.  He has shown at venues including The Soap Factory and Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota, Paper Circle Gallery in Ohio, and internationally at the Palazzetto Cenci in Rome and the Palazzo dei Consoli in Gubbio, Italy. He currently makes his home on the coast of Maine where in addition to producing his own art he also works for the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and teaches at George Stevens Academy, a private high school in Blue Hill, Maine.  He received his B.F.A. in Printmaking with a concentration in Art History from the Rhode Island School of Design. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2000 2006          8 x 8 x 8: NYC / MSP / LON*          The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN; Fieldgate Gallery, London  (curators, Andrea Stanislav and Patty McMeans) 2005          Sculpture 2005          Franconia Sculpture Park, Minneapolis, MN          Pulp Fiction          Paper Circle Gallery, Nelsonville, OH   2004  Panoramas  Benson Hall Gallery, Providence, RI  Final Exhibition  Palazzetto Cenci, Rome, Italy  RISD à Gubbio*  Palazzo dei Consoli, Gubbio, Italy (curator, Bobbie Oliver) 2003  Sketchbooks and Further Explorations  Palazzetto Cenci, Rome, Italy  The 4 Elements*  Forest Hills Educational Trust, Boston, MA (curator, Cecily Miller)  Group Exhibition  Benson Hall Gallery, Providence, RI 2001   Artists’ Books Exhibition  Library of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2000  Group Exhibition  The Grand Auditorioum, Ellsworth, ME *asterisks denote exhibitions with publications, reviews, or mentions