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 was featured in the exhibition, "Pocket Universe" (Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA). Dove's work was recently the subject of a solo exhibition, "reAnimal" at Philip Martin Gallery and a solo presentation on David Zwirner Platform. Daniel Dove's work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at 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.