Dan Herschlein
The Architect
04 Sep 2018 - 06 Jan 2019
Dan Herschlein, The Enthusiast, 2015.
Wood, pigmented joint compound, paint, wax, video camera, video, cabinet, sweater, bottles, whiskey, chair, belt, drill gun, pulleys, and rope, dimensions variable.
Courtesy the artist and JTT, New York
Wood, pigmented joint compound, paint, wax, video camera, video, cabinet, sweater, bottles, whiskey, chair, belt, drill gun, pulleys, and rope, dimensions variable.
Courtesy the artist and JTT, New York
DAN HERSCHLEIN
The Architect
04 September 2018 – 06 January 2019
Curated by Natalie Bell, Associate Curator
IN HIS PERFORMANCES, FIGURATIVE SCULPTURES, AND DRAWINGS, DAN HERSCHLEIN (B. 1989, BAYVILLE, NY) STAGES PSYCHOLOGICAL TABLEAUX THAT EVOKE FEELINGS OF ISOLATION, ANXIETY, AND A FRACTURING OF THE SELF.
His often life-size sculptural and relief works are meticulously crafted using cast plaster as well as common carpentry and furniture-making materials such as wood, joint compound, and wax. The fragmented spaces he creates suggest the uncanny atmosphere of nightmares, merging markers of domesticity—sofas, tables, recliners, and windows—with human figures or wandering body parts to underscore how furniture, architecture, and bodies can all serve as vessels of memory and witnesses of loss.
Herschlein will present a new installation in the window of the New Museum’s 231 Bowery building. His project joins a new series of window installations that relaunches a program the New Museum originally mounted in the 1980s.
Dan Herschlein (b. 1989, Bayville, NY) lives and works in Brooklyn. Recent solo exhibitions include “Safe as Houses” at JTT, New York (2017); “The Stillness of Eddies” at 56 Henry, New York (2016); “Worm” at AA|LA, Los Angeles (2016); and “The Enthusiast” at JTT, New York (2015). Group exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik (2018) and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (2018), Bureau (2018), Helena Anrather (2017), SIGNAL (2015), New Release (2015), and Recess (2012) in New York. Herschlein received a BFA from New York University in 2010.
The Architect
04 September 2018 – 06 January 2019
Curated by Natalie Bell, Associate Curator
IN HIS PERFORMANCES, FIGURATIVE SCULPTURES, AND DRAWINGS, DAN HERSCHLEIN (B. 1989, BAYVILLE, NY) STAGES PSYCHOLOGICAL TABLEAUX THAT EVOKE FEELINGS OF ISOLATION, ANXIETY, AND A FRACTURING OF THE SELF.
His often life-size sculptural and relief works are meticulously crafted using cast plaster as well as common carpentry and furniture-making materials such as wood, joint compound, and wax. The fragmented spaces he creates suggest the uncanny atmosphere of nightmares, merging markers of domesticity—sofas, tables, recliners, and windows—with human figures or wandering body parts to underscore how furniture, architecture, and bodies can all serve as vessels of memory and witnesses of loss.
Herschlein will present a new installation in the window of the New Museum’s 231 Bowery building. His project joins a new series of window installations that relaunches a program the New Museum originally mounted in the 1980s.
Dan Herschlein (b. 1989, Bayville, NY) lives and works in Brooklyn. Recent solo exhibitions include “Safe as Houses” at JTT, New York (2017); “The Stillness of Eddies” at 56 Henry, New York (2016); “Worm” at AA|LA, Los Angeles (2016); and “The Enthusiast” at JTT, New York (2015). Group exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik (2018) and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (2018), Bureau (2018), Helena Anrather (2017), SIGNAL (2015), New Release (2015), and Recess (2012) in New York. Herschlein received a BFA from New York University in 2010.