Dan Walsh
There are two things going on which are seemingly contradictory—a hard, repetitive façade, and a screen full of light. That tells me that you don’t have a set notion of what the plane is that you are painting on. You are finding out what it is. You don’t always know what’s going to happen when you put the paint on.
Dan Walsh via brooklynrail.org, 2010
Dan Walsh (1960, United States) is known for his monochrome paintings in one (main) color. In these paintings we see rectangles, squares or lines that enter into a dialogue with one another. Like the colors on a computer or TV screen, these lines seem to vibrate. Over time, he has abandoned the psychological aspect traditionally associated with abstract art. He wants to give more ‘weight’ to his works by making them less mystical and more material and tangible.
