Surface Contradictions, The First Twenty Years

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Stephen Daiter Gallery is pleased to present Joseph D. Jachna: Surface Contradictions, the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Initially intended to be a career retrospective, the exhibition narrowed in focus upon our discovery of several storage boxes that held a wealth of previously unseen photographs dating from the artist’s graduate school days at the Institute of Design. We were stunned by both the breadth and the quality of this early work. This show is comprised of over sixty previously unknown vintage photographs from the artist’s 1961 thesis project on the subject of water, and images made years later in Door County, WI. These photos represent an overarching theme Jachna returned to time and again, all ideas of self - exploration, reflection, and expression.