5th display - off track art list of work by kevin dayhoff

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Off Track Art list of

work by KevinDayhoff

December 29,2010 – Off TrackArt 5th display

11 Liberty Street,Westminster, MD21157

Art’s easy – life is hard. I find it more painful not to do art than it is to live alife as an artist. Art helps keeps me sane.

1. “Acid Rain” original collage, August 20, 1985#160, (Previously displayed at a Western MarylandCollege show, February 6 – 23, 1990; and displayed inmy Westminster City Halloffice 2001 – 2005.)

[19850820 0160 Acid Rain] [20101229 5th OTA display

list of works] This original collage is not for sale, duh!;however, 12” x 16” framed digitally enhanced copies areavailable for $193.17.

2. “Evening Shift for the Souvlaki Server, April 29, 2010,computer enhanced photograph, 201 College Avenue,Blacksburg, VA (Never previously displayed.) [20100429Souvlaki server1e] [20101229 5th OTA display list of works] $193.17



3. “God Grant Me - Sinead O’Conner,”August 26, 1990, [19900826 ] mixed mediacollage, “God grant me the serenity to acceptthe things I cannot change. The courage to

change the things I can. And the wisdom toknow the difference.” (Never previouslydisplayed.) Mixed media colored collage orsomething like that… I guess you had tohave been there to understand, however thispiece is more or less a kibitz that I havealways liked for reasons I’ve never beenquite aware and I’m not willing to spend themoney to have someone explain. I do know Ilike the words of wisdom in the piece and it

was upon that I concentrated and was really relatively oblivious that the focal

point of the piece really ended-up being Sinead O’Connor… Whatever.[19900826 Sinead OConnor] I’m not sure I want to sell it. I’ve never beenquite sure what to do with it. $174.17

4. “Point of Decision,” July 18, 1984#102.1 The Medical Series #1, colorphotocopier collage. (Neverdisplayed before.) [19840718 102 1]

This original color photocopier is notreally for sale, duh!; however, 12” x16” framed digitally enhancedcopies are available for $193.17.

This piece replaced: “The Dulles Traveler” computer enhanced collagedphotograph,February 28,2009 – To RoyMeachum,[20090228] 12”x 16” frameddigitallyenhanced copiesof “The Dulles

Traveler” areavailable for$193.17.



5. “Caroline Feeds a Tarpon” February 6,2010 photograph, [20100206] (Neverpreviously displayed) $174.17

6. “Spiked”September 1981,photograph, near1809 East Joppa,

Towson MD[19810900110.10.81.G1.n17

p.#5 (Never previously displayed) $125.00

7. “Portrait in yellow andblue,” colored black and white photocopier art,

[19891200 portrait in yellow] #389 (Previouslydisplayed at a Western Maryland College show,February 6 – 23, 1990) This original colorphotocopier is not really for sale… however, 12”x 16” framed digitally enhanced copies areavailable for $193.17.

8. “Dulles Elevator to”computer enhanced collagedphotograph, February 28, 2009, Dulles International Airport, in northernVirginia outside of Washington D.C. [20090228] (Never previously displayed)$193.17.

9. “Sunset” (“The Magic Tree”)photograph (Never previously displayed)

This picture was taken one evening inthe vicinity of Rte. 32 and OldWashington Road, just southeast of Westminster, as Caroline and I weregoing out to Bullocks for dinner.[20100113-sunset-(2)c-orange]$193.17.



10. “Monday Morning Notepad”mixed media assemblage, Mondaymorning, 9:45 a.m. July 16, 1990[19900716 Monday MorningNotepad] #475 (Previously

displayed at a Western MarylandCollege Arts Honors Alumni show March 26 – April 12,1991. Not for sale…

11. “Dayhoff Uses Computer Screen as Easel” November18, 2009 Advocate article by Lyndi McNulty NFS

12. “Fallfest” computer enhancedcollaged photograph, [20060922FFMontage5] Not for Sale – will bedonated to Westminster Fallfest

after this show is taken down. It will be displayed in the new Babylonbuilding on the Westminster playground.

13. “Substitute Blotter” mixed mediaassemblage 3:30 a.m. October 7, 1990[19901007 Substitute Blotter] (Neverpreviously displayed) Not for Sale

14. “Tape Measure Truck” mixed mediaassemblage July 7, 1996 [19960607

Tape Measure Truck] Not for Sale

15. Westminster Bank and Trust Company lobbyunder construction August 8, 1995 [19950808WBandTCo lobby] Not for sale. After this displayit will go into the collection of Charles Buchman.



16. “26 Letters Rearranged Equals a Story”digitally enhanced collage. [20100904 26letters rearranged] $193.17

17 “Zelda” #398 January 5, 1990 collage

[19900105 398Zelda] Not forsale. however,12” x 16”framed digitallyenhancedcopies areavailable for$193.17.

18. “Run over” 03.82.G.1.N.25a.p.50 1/50photograph (Never previously displayed)[19820300 Run over] $125.00

This display is dedicated to ourlongstanding and devoted van, which

was retired shortly after it was used totransport all the art for this display onthe evening of December 29, 2010…

[20101229 5th OTA display list of works]



Kevin Dayhoff brief artist bio October 14, 2010

Kevin, age 57, is a Westminster native who lives on Uniontown Road withhis wife, Caroline Babylon. Kevin has been a freelance writer and artistsince 1971; a self-employed artist and businessman since 1974 andexhibiting art since 1981.

As a landscape, collage, mixed media assemblage, sculpture artist, writerand photographer; he has had a life-long pervasive interest in spatial

relationships and the juxtapositioning of incongruent objects. His career in art and writing hasbeen a study in perseverance. Success often comes by hanging on to your dreams when otherlet go.

After graduating from Westminster High School in 1971, he attended Elon College and servedin the United State Marine Corps Reserve for two years before quitting college to pursue acareer in writing and art.

However, Dayhoff interviewed with the Greensboro, NC, “ Daily Record” newspaper in the springof 1973 – and was turned down.

He returned to Westminster and worked at a variety of jobs - hauling livestock, work in thecarpenters union, working on bridges, including the Francis Scott Key Bridge over the outerBaltimore Harbor, and landscaping with Thomas C Senseney Landscaping.

Dayhoff soon put aside his drawings and collages and concentrated increasingly on technical writing and landscape designing where he could turn his art into a finished product that thegreater community could more easily understand - and for which he was paid.

In 1974, Dayhoff started his own business as a landscape designer, contractor, andnurseryman. As the business continued to get established, he found that he could spend moretime on his first loves – art and writing.

Dayhoff tried again to get a job with a newspaper, the “ Carroll County Times ,” in 1975 andfailed again.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dayhoff made many trips to New York City to take in artshows, foreign movies, and theatre. In New York he had opportunities to see, and beinfluenced by varied artists from Joseph Bueys, Joseph Cornell, Lawrence Weiner, LouiseNevelson, Edward Hopper, to Robert Rauschenberg and Helen Frankenthaler.

On several of the trips to New York he would take slides of his art work from gallery to gallerylooking for shows or an agent, with no luck.

In June and July 1981 Dayhoff had his first art show, a one-person show at the TheatreProject in Baltimore, followed by a group show, "Four at 409" at Gallery 409, in Baltimore in

October 1982Dayhoff continued to write short stories in earnest and sending out manuscripts seekingpublication with essentially no success. The only rejection notices Dayhoff kept from this timeperiod is the one he received from the poetry editor of the Baltimore City Paper, AndreiCodrescu, on March 27, 1982.

It was in the 1982 time period that Dayhoff met Carroll County artists Linda Van Hart andRobert J. Waddell while he was exploring photocopier art; which was, in part, influenced bysuch works as “The Xerox Book,” published in 1968 by Seth Siegelaub.



Hart and Waddell opened-up more opportunities for Dayhoff to explore art and haveopportunities to show. In addition to encouraging Dayhoff to continue exploring photocopierart and collage, Hart and Waddell also introduced Dayhoff to ‘Mail Art.”

Mail Art, an art genre that may be traced back as far as the early 1960s, used the international

postal system for artists to exchange ideas and images in which the individualized artisticexpressions began a part of a greater whole.

It grew as a form of artistic expression in the 1970s and 80s, until the mid-1990s, when theInternet began to provide similar digital global artistic networking opportunities; althoughDayhoff continues to participate in ( - Ryosuke Cohen’s long-running “Brain Cell” – “Fractal” series, from Osaka, Japan, (from 1988) to this day.

Mail Art afforded opportunities for artists to network and collaborate from all over the worldand provided an opportunity for art to explore social-consciousness and self-expression thatcollapsed the bifurcation between art and life and avoided commodification; with the exceptionof its manifestation in art “zines.”

Beginning with a June 1983 one-person show, Dayhoff has had the opportunity to display artat the Carroll Arts Center on five occasions over the last 3 decades.

In addition to the Arts Center, he has had about six shows at Western Maryland College from1985 to 1991, including an extensive one-person retrospective show, “Tales of aDisenfranchised Hilltop Artist/Farmer,” in February 1990.

Dayhoff retired from landscape design, contracting and raising nursery stock after 25 years inthe business, in 1999.

From 1999 to 2005 Dayhoff served as an elected official for the city of Westminster; from 1999to 2001 as a councilmember and 2001 to 2005 as mayor.

In 2005 when he became “the artist formally known as mayor,” he redoubled his exploration of digitally enhanced, computer-aided art with a jumpstart from Sue Bloom at McDaniel Collegein the fall of 2005.

In addition to contributing to various trade periodicals, he currently writes about history, art,agriculture, community, and crime for several publications including the Westminster andSunday Carroll Eagle for Patuxent Publishing Co., since June 2, 2005; The Tentacle, since

June 9, 2005 and Investigative Voice since February 25, 2010.

From June 2004 through 2005, he wrote a weekly column for the Westminster Advocate, weekly newspaper published by the Carroll County Times, a Landmark CommunityNewspapers publication.

In 2009 he was awarded first place in the editorial “critical thinking” category for non-dailies with over 20,000 in circulation, by the Maryland Delaware DC Press Association, for the April2, 2008 Westminster Eagle column, “Jeff Morse incident a lost opportunity.”

In the past he has enjoyed collaborating with a number of artist groups, including TheConsortionists with Linda Van Hart and Bobby Waddell from 1983 to 1989; the United ArtWorkers from 1989 to 1991 and most recently with Off Track Art from December 2008 topresent.

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“The art of economic development”© By Kevin Dayhoff February 13, 2009

I’m honored to be a part of “Off Track Art.” It’s a great group of dedicated artistswho have come together to bring more art to Westminster and Carroll County.

With so many artists living in Carroll County, recent advances in technology, and Carroll’s highquality of life, our area is poised and ready to attract many more artists - and cultural and artisticshops, studios and venues to the greater Westminster area.

Hopefully, “Off Track Art” will be the start of many more studios and shops coming to enjoy thewonderful opportunities that are available here in Westminster and Carroll County.

In my March 6 th , 2006 Westminster Eagle column I wrote that art “contributes to our community inmore ways than meets the eye.

“The arts build a sense of community identity and pride. Arts programs and cultural events add toour sense of community and quality of life by bringing people together for a shared experience.

“Carroll County Arts Council board member JoAnn Hunter recently noted, "I enjoy getting togetherwith friends for dinner before an event at the Arts Center. I notice many other folks doing the samething.

“‘This is good business for the town and helps builds a sense of community,’ she said.

“Arts and cultural programming provide quality of life values to a family oriented community andserves as an incubator and creative outlet for our children.

“(Art) also brings a substantial return on the investment to Carroll County in the form of tax dollarsand increased economic vibrancy.

“Not only does a strong and vibrant community arts and cultural presence strengthen spiritually andphilosophically - but it also strengthens a region economically.

“The artistic and cultural soul of a community makes our communities better places to live andwork.

“Arts and cultural centers are often an important factor used by businesses in their decision as towhether to locate in an area such as Carroll County.

“A prospective business will often gauge the health of a community by investigating the vigor of thenon-profit community, the faith community, youth oriented programming, recreation opportunitiesand the level of art and cultural opportunities available for the community - and its employees.

“Pam Zappardino, a leading arts and cultural advocate in the community says, ‘I think that the ArtsCenter, together with the other venues in the community like the Carroll Community College,McDaniel College and Common Ground on the Hill, are a critical part of a healthy community. Theybring people to (Westminster) and this is good for the economic health of the community.’”

A region is not necessarily transformed by the power, quality and value of art, but by the greatersense of vibrancy, optimism and sense of self worth it provides.

Writer’s note: quoted material previously appeared in my March 1, 2006Westminster Eagle column: “Carroll Arts Center rides on the wings of success”

#### Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster Maryland USA. E-mail him at: [email protected] His columns appear in The Westminster Eagle /Eldersburg Eagle The Sunday Carroll Eagle - Opinion: http://explorecarroll.com/opinion-

talk/ http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/ www.westminstermarylandonline.net http://www.youtube.com/user/kevindayhoff http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1040426835

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