His current exhibition, Top Ten Teen Dance Party, is built around the release of his CD, which bears the all-encompassing title LP RECORD CD. The CD, made with singer Mary Margaret O'Hara and other friends, is a brilliant hodge-podge of sampling and sensibility, of mad lyricism and thoughtful, poignant, salutary absurdity. The disc is made to look like a miniature LP -- a battered one at that -- and comes in an LP carrying case, along with a selection of the multiples that make up the exhibition.
Open Studio is, of course, an artist's print shop.
What is Dako's Dance Party doing
there? The irrepressible Dako, it turns out, was invited into a residency there,
where he transformed his best-known works -- teeming, exuberant cartoon-like
drawings on metal saw-blades -- into silk-screened
cartoony images, this time printed on saw-toothed wooden discs. Surely one might
be forgiven, in this instance, for pronouncing the whole show unstoppably groovy.
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