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The Cove
This artwork—made from milk paint, wax, graphite, colored pencil, and joint compound on wood—portrays a haunting domestic scene, which continues the artist’s conceptual exploration of how security relates to gender, the home, and the self. In the image, Herschlein’s dramatic shading around a little house on a lake ominously beckons the viewer closer despite its eerie appearance.
Dan Herschlein’s application of pigment in paste (along with their use of home construction skills like furniture-making) gives their work an accessible, real-world texture. In doing so, they imbue their folkloric domestic environments with an uncanny intimacy and visceral atmosphere within which we feel eerily at home.
The artist uses images of the body and horror tropes to explore the human desire for comfort and emotional understanding. Herschlein’s sculptures and reliefs in wood, plaster, and wax depict headless, scarecrow-like figures and dismembered body parts, which, in their totality, feel simultaneously unsettling and surprisingly tender. Alienation, aloneness, and fear also pervade Herschlein’s work, with the intent of sparking deeper self-reflection.
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Working in sculpture, drawing, and performance, Dan Herschlein uses images of the body and horror tropes to explore the human desire for comfort and emotional understanding. Herschlein’s sculptures and reliefs in wood, plaster, and wax depict headless, scarecrow-like figures and dismembered body parts, which, in their totality, feel simultaneously unsettling and surprisingly tender. The voyeur is a recurring character in Herschlein’s oeuvre – not as a threat but as the ultimate "outsider." Alienation, aloneness, and fear also pervade Herschlein’s art, with the intent of sparking deeper self-reflection.
Dan Herschlein was born in 1989 in Bayville, NY, and lives in Los Angeles, CA. They received their BFA from New York University in New York City, NY (2010).
Herschlein has mounted recent solo exhibitions at Matthew Brown in Los Angeles, CA (2021, 2019); JTT in New York City, NY (2020, 2019, 2017); The New Museum in New York City, NY (2018); and 56 Henry in New York City, NY (2016).
Their group exhibitions include River Styx at Sea View in Los Angeles, CA (2023); The Tale Their Terror Tells at Lyles & King in New York City, NY (2022); Recent Sculpture at Matthew Brown in Los Angeles, CA (2022); Theorem X at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York City, NY (2021); It Seems So Long Ago at Matthew Brown in Los Angeles, CA (2020); Ecce Puer at PACT in Paris, France (2020); and others.
This artwork—made from milk paint, wax, graphite, colored pencil, and joint compound on wood—portrays a haunting domestic scene, which continues the artist’s conceptual exploration of how security relates to gender, the home, and the self. In the image, Herschlein’s dramatic shading around a little house on a lake ominously beckons the viewer closer despite its eerie appearance.More
- Framed: 4.5 x 6.4 x 1.0 in.
- Signed on verso
