James Hatley. 40 page exhibition catalogue. Salisbury, MD: Salisbury University Art Galleries, 2013. View/download
In Dan Mills’ "Quest" series, the geometric order of the checkerboard is subsumed beneath luminous shapes and layers of color that vibrate visually and speak as much about the history of art as they do about the history of the world. Thus, “Quest” makes the point that, far from being objective records of physical places, maps are themselves consciously constructed art forms. The geography they depict exists in human consciousness rather than the landscape itself.
—James Hatley
