Dan Mills
Dan Mills creates map-based paintings based on observations of historical and current events. He began incorporating maps into his work in the early 1990s while researching the 500-year anniversary of what is euphemistically referred to as ‘The First Encounter’—the arrival of European colonizers on the eastern shores of what is now known as the United States. To create his painted and collaged works, Mills conducts research on topics affecting global populations, such as current wars and conflicts and shifting colonial histories and agendas. His artworks visualize the data he gathers, while also alluding to processes of erasure and collective amnesia through heavy over-painting and obfuscation of detail.