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reAnimal: Daniel Dove
Exhibition
reAnimal: Daniel Dove
29 Oct 2022 – 26 Nov 2022
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 3342 Verdugo Rd, Ste A,
- Los Angeles
City of Industry - CA 90065
- United States
Philip Martin Gallery is pleased to present its second solo exhibition of paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Daniel Dove. Dove's oil-on-canvas pieces present the often surreal paradoxes of modern life.
About
Daniel Dove's works depict figurative sculpture in tenuous relationships with a background or environment of lyrical shapes. In Dove's practice, shifts in painterly surface suggest tactility and volume against a resolute flatness of design. His color palette bathes abstraction in warm naturalistic light.In several of his works, Daniel Dove take on known art-historical motifs, using them as a jumping off point for imagined compositions. The horse, for example, in the painting "Equus I" is plucked from the chaos of Picasso’s canonical masterpiece, “Guernica” (1937). In Dove's work, the equine form stands in isolation, on an empty expanse, underneath a luminous, Cubist-inflected sky.
Another Dove painting, "Grrrl with Guitar," rebuilds the original subject of another Picasso’s piece,“Girl with Mandolin” (1910). To do so, Dove adapts torquing sculptural planes. An almost-mystical light emanates from the figure's Courtney Love hair, conjuring 90s-era's “Riot Grrl” energy from an otherwise still and silent monument.
Several of the works in Dove's exhibition present ad-hoc constructions, standing in salt flats or arid planes. Many of these creaturely forms appear as if assembled from the detritus of consumer culture. Influenced equally by Modernist masterworks and desert- dwelling junk sculpture, they seem very much alive, forcing us to ask questions with regard to the world we live in and how we think about it.
