In the digital age, where up-to-the-moment weather reports for any location on the globe are at our fingertips, there is something reassuring about the regularity of the daily newspaper’s standard weather page. While the information changes daily, the format is solidly predictable. John Dooley mines a variety of newspapers for raw material. In the collages, such as Fire on Black, weather maps are de-contextualized and sorted according to color to create a ring of fire. Five Years of the Weather Page I and II was created using stop-animation to record the New York Times’ weather page, each day from March, 2000 to March 2005. This mundane and ultimately out-of-date information is transposed to create the visually vivid motion of weather patterns, such as jet streams, heat waves and cold fronts, moving across the United States.

In 2003, John Dooley’s year-long residency at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM, culminated in a solo exhibition. He participated in the Residency Program at the Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA and his work was shown there in 2000. His work has also been shown at the California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA; and Broadway Windows, New York, NY.

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Five Years of the Weather Page I and II, 2005
DVD, DVD player, 13” flat screen monitor
video still
Courtesy of the artist

Fire on Black, 2004

newsprint on paper

30” x 24”
Courtesy of the artist