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Dan Schein: Don’t Worry Cows, It’s Only Death, 2011. Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm.
Dan Schein’s oil paintings are heavy and pasty in their expression. With several layers of paint,
the artist creates his motifs in an intuitive process that alternates between richness of detail and large painterly surfaces bordering on abstraction. The brushstrokes are vital and dynamic, the color attitude changing between the earthy and the brilliantly clear. Dan Schein’s motif universe is built on subtle and humorous depictions of people. The expression is often caricatured, distorted and with connections to a cartoon aesthetic that meets the American painting movement called New Bad Painting, where an exaltation of the ugly and unfinished is at stake. Don’t Worry Cows, It’s Only Death also ranks as an example of how Dan Schein uses titles to stage and develop his narratives about the ironic and tragicomic characters that arise in his paintings. Dan Schein’s representations of the awkward, absurd, and anti-heroic offer an uncompromising and sober look at human life and actions.
Dan Schein (1985 ZA) has lived and worked in the USA most of his life and now resides in New York. He is a graduate of Purchase College SUNY and the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia. Dan Schein is represented by Galleri Tom Christofersen in Copenhagen, where he has exhibited several times. In addition, he has presented his works at Galleri Brandstrup, NO, Marvin Gardens, US; Room Art Space, US; Mike Weiss Gallery, US. In the USA, Dan Schein is represented by the GAA Gallery.
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