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 "A
glass case contains three different bags labeled “sticks,”
“stones,” and “broken bones,” reminding us that
the old adage does not ring true, because words CAN hurt us ..."
Dennis
McMillan, SAN FRANCISCO BAY TIMES, March 2006
"Until
recently, most art events associated with HIV -- such as the annual
"A Day Without Art" -- have focused more on those who have
died than on those who mourn them. What of the survivors? This
collaborative exhibit eloquently answers that question by combining
visual arts and performance, video and literary works by those whose
partners have died."
Nancy Warren, SFGate.com
/ San Francisco Chronicle , June 2001
"Artists
have always been on the front lines of the AIDS war with cultural,
social, and political agitprop work. Adding to this legacy is a new
multidisciplinary project, Life After Death: Embracing the Queer
Widow, organized by Dan Pillers ..."
John
R. Killacky, THE BAY AREA REPORTER , June 2001
"And
there are objects of sheer beauty, like Dan Pillers' life-size memento
mori boxes whose glass lids are etched
with poems of grief and hope."
Will
Shank, THE BAY AREA REPORTER , June 2001
"One
of the most poignant images in the show is a mixed media sculpture
by Dan Pillers of San Francisco, called 'Remember Them'. ... It all
adds up to a chilling piece that calls up associations with the
Holocaust as well as social stigma gays face today."
Victoria
Dalkey, THE SACRAMENTO BEE , April 2001
“[Pillers'
work] strikes a chord in the viewer of simultaneous grief and beauty
that transcends the politics of personal deconstruction. [His] work
has been called powerful, unnerving and confrontational. I would also
add sublime.”
Marke
Bieschke, CITYSEARCH.COM, February 2000
“Pillers
does a good job of dissecting the daily business of being gay in a
homophobic culture, and he lays it all out with unswerving visual fair.”
Sarah
Coleman, THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, January 2000
“[His
works are] full of relic-like testaments to the AIDS ravaged
landscape... . [They are] revelatory in the way they mix childhood
rhymes with grim reality.”
Samuael
Topiary, SAN FRANCISCO BAY TIMES, September 1995
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