Daniel Dove's oil-on-canvas pieces present the often surreal paradoxes of modern life. His paintings evoke the effects of architecture, art and popular culture. His compositions are rich with detail, beautiful brushwork and dynamic color. Daniel Dove’s compositions push the viewer’s sense of the picture plane, while engaging a knowledge of art history. Genres such as gestural and hard-edge abstraction, history painting, landscape, and still life are all pulled into Daniel Dove’s work. We might find a figure drawn from Matisse or Picasso reimagined as a sculpture set in the middle of the desert, open country stretching into the horizon. Several of Dove's works 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.
Daniel DOVE (b. 1971, Austin Texas) received his BFA from University of Texas (Austin, TX) and his MFA from Yale University (New Haven, CT). Daniel Dove’s recent and upcoming solo and group exhibitions include “reAnimal,” and “Pocket Universe,” Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); David Zwirner Platform (Los Angeles, CA); Frederick R. Weisman Museum (Malibu, CA); Cleveland Institute of Art (Cleveland, OH); The Contemporary Austin (Austin, TX); and Jack Shainman Gallery (New York, NY). Dove is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship. His work has been the focus of reviews and features in publications such as Artforum: Must See, Art in America, Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Harper’s Magazine, LA Weekly, and Tema Celeste. Dove’s work is in the permanent collections of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum (Malibu, CA); Progressive Insurance (Cleveland, OH); and Hallmark Art Collection (Kansas City, MO). Daniel Dove lives and works in San Pedro, CA.
Philip Martin Gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday from 11-5. For additional images, or information please email info@philipmartingallery.com, or call 323-507-2037. Philip Martin Gallery is located at 3342 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065 in the Glassell Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.