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Daniel Turner BIOGRAPHY
Born 1983 Portsmouth, Virginia. Known for: Installations, large scale canvas painting, wall reliefs, sculpture.
Working with industrial materials and byproducts—like steel wool, rust, and polyethylene—Daniel Turner highlights the austere beauty and poetry in the chemical processes of dissolution, transference,... Read full biography
Working with industrial materials and byproducts—like steel wool, rust, and polyethylene—Daniel Turner highlights the austere beauty and poetry in the chemical processes of dissolution, transference, and transformation. Though he was trained as a painter, and began his emerging career producing... Read full biography
Working with industrial materials and byproducts—like steel wool, rust, and polyethylene—Daniel Turner highlights the austere beauty and poetry in the chemical processes of dissolution, transference, and transformation. Though he was trained as a painter, and began his emerging career producing large-scale canvases, he felt confined by his medium’s two-dimensionality. True to his current explorations, he moved away from painting and towards wall reliefs, sculptures, and installations by... Read full biography
Working with industrial materials and byproducts—like steel wool, rust, and polyethylene—Daniel Turner highlights the austere beauty and poetry in the chemical processes of dissolution, transference, and transformation. Though he was trained as a painter, and began his emerging career producing large-scale canvases, he felt confined by his medium’s two-dimensionality. True to his current explorations, he moved away from painting and towards wall reliefs, sculptures, and installations by destroying his canvases in a bonfire, titling this action, Burning an Entire Body of Work (2006). As he describes: “The work had to lose its own structure to move forward, so I burnt everything—some 30 to 40 large-scale paintings.” Now Turner’s work ranges... Read full biography
Working with industrial materials and byproducts—like steel wool, rust, and polyethylene—Daniel Turner highlights the austere beauty and poetry in the chemical processes of dissolution, transference, and transformation. Though he was trained as a painter, and began his emerging career producing large-scale canvases, he felt confined by his medium’s two-dimensionality. True to his current explorations, he moved away from painting and towards wall reliefs, sculptures, and installations by destroying his canvases in a bonfire, titling this action, Burning an Entire Body of Work (2006). As he describes: “The work had to lose its own structure to move forward, so I burnt everything—some 30 to 40 large-scale paintings.” Now Turner’s work ranges from industrial sinks set into wooden blocks, and filled with slowly rusting metal parts partially submerged in water, to smoky, subtle... Read full biography
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Working with industrial materials and byproducts—like steel wool, rust, and polyethylene—Daniel Turner highlights the austere beauty and poetry in the chemical processes of dissolution, transference, and transformation. Though he was trained as a painter, and began his emerging career producing large-scale canvases, he felt confined by his medium’s two-dimensionality. True to his current explorations, he moved away from painting and towards wall reliefs, sculptures, and installations by destroying his canvases in a bonfire, titling this action, Burning an Entire Body of Work (2006).
As he describes: “The work had to lose its own structure to move forward, so I burnt everything—some 30 to 40 large-scale paintings.” Now Turner’s work ranges from industrial sinks set into wooden blocks, and filled with slowly rusting metal parts partially submerged in water, to smoky, subtle steel wool rubbings on gallery walls.
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"Daniel Turner," Artsy, Web, April 2016Biography from Franklin Parrasch Gallery
For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, the artist has developed two architectural scaled works in tempered glass. Consisting of several sheets of leaning glass stacked in two sections along the gallery wall, each sculpture forms a transparent achromatic scale.
Though independently each sheet of glass may appear nearly translucent, when layered upon one another the slight pigmentation inherent to the panes becomes more concentrated, settling into a pronounced yet atmospheric grey.
Daniel Turner was born in Portsmouth, VA in 1983. His work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions including: the Chinati Foundation (Marfa, TX), Objectif Exhibitions (Antwerp, Belgium), Galerie im Taxispalais (Innsbruck, Austria), Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève/Fondation Arditi (Geneva, Switzerland), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France), University of California San Diego (La Jolla, CA), Muzeul National de Arta din Cluj-Napoca (Cluj, Romania), and The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw, Poland). Turner’s work is currently included in The Forces Behind the Forms at the Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Museen Haus Lange und Haus Esters in Krefeld, Germany, which travels to Kunstmuseum Thun in Thun, Switerzland this fall.
Daniel Turner will be on view at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery from March 10-April 23, 2016.