Dan Walsh: Paintings
Looking at Dan Walsh’s paintings reminds me of driving past construction sites, imagining through the scaffolding what the end result might be. It’s never one thing or image, though. With a careful attention to composition, layering, and color, Walsh paints at the moment before realization — coaxing different shapes and textures toward a feeling of familiarity (could they be emblems? road signs? perforated paper? control panels?), but never a hard metaphor. […]
all images courtesy the artist and Hiram Butler Gallery
Originally published by Hiram Butler Gallery on the occasion of Dan Walsh: Paintings, on view from 1 June to 27 July 2019
