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Cherry and Martin: DANIEL DOVE - 16 Jan 2010 to 20 Feb 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Daniel Dove, Heat Wave, 2010
Oil on canvas, 32 x 40 inches |
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DANIEL DOVE January 16 - February 20, 2010 Cherry and Martin presents its second solo exhibition of Daniel Dove�s large-scale oil paintings dealing with pictorial construction and the manipulated environments of contemporary America. Daniel Dove�s recent paintings depict structures in states of transition, either half-ruined or partially reconstructed. The subjects of Dove�s pictures range from suburban landscape detritus to charged contemporary artifacts (such as reconstructed bombed airplane fuselages), meticulously re-built to understand or reinvent their original trauma. In this rebuilding, Dove�s objects reveal a longing for completeness that can never be restored, much the way that his highly composed canvases offer distilled, ordered fictions based on chaotic and often dangerous real-world events. Daniel Dove�s process combines naturalistic depiction with reflexive aspects that refer to image-making and/or painting. This could be emphasis on painting�s material (gesture and other process evidence), reference to genres of abstraction (all-over, geometric), or the idea of an image within the image that doubles the picture plane (such as a billboard, stage flat, or movie set). By working multiple concerns within each work, Dove�s paintings echo the re-assembled or staged aspects of his subjects, where unity is always both present and tenuous. This balance of depictive and reflexive ambitions makes both narratives�that of studio thinking and that of the world external to art�equally important in Dove�s work. Daniel Dove received his MFA from Yale University. His work has been featured in such exhibitions as Fracture and Fidelity, curated by Chris Bedford, at RISD (Providence, RI); Made in California at the Frederick R. Wesiman Museum of Art (Malibu, CA); and Dreaming of a More Better Future, curated by Saul Ostrow, at the Cleveland Art Institute (Cleveland, OH). |
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