One of seven rookie exhibitors to be featured in this year’s campus selections, Harry McDaniel brings Intrusion from his Asheville, North Carolina studio. Intrusion is constructed of steel, aluminum and powder-coat paint. “Intrusion was a piece that I made over the course of several years, and when I first began, I was working, primarily, in steel. I knew from my crude sketches and the maquette process, that I wanted the three pieces to be different colors; so when I finished fabricating the first piece and painted it red, it was still missing something,” McDaniel recalls. “So, I went to add texture by grinding and I really liked the way it was turning out, but I very quickly realized, this is going to take forever and it nearly did; so the truth is, by this point in the process, I was becoming more and more familiar with stainless steel and that’s why the third piece is not orange, as I had originally intended and instead, that stainless steel – which I think really adds depth to the piece.” This “happy timing,” as he refers to it now, gave Intrusion the depth necessary to accomplish McDaniel’s first goal with the piece. “I wanted to create an engaging sculpture that invited the audience to interact with it, to walk around it and experience it from all angles, all perspectives. I wanted the viewer to explore his/her relationship with space and the piece, just as this piece explores the relationship between three competing perspectives for space. You can really ask yourself from which side, which perspective is the intrusion coming?”
Intrusion by Harry McDaniel
