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Daniel Gerwin

Daniel Gerwin is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles.

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The Futile Effort of Differentiating Fine Art from Design

by Daniel Gerwin August 24, 2017August 24, 2017

The Useful and the Decorative at the Landing explores the relationship between fine art and design, and how the lines blur between them.

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Painting Cosmic Phenomena with Patterns of Subatomic Decay

by Daniel Gerwin July 20, 2017July 19, 2017

Kysa Johnson represents nebula, neutron stars, and star clouds using the spiraling paths of the tiniest particles.

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Surreal Arrangements of Bare Limbs and Suggestive Fruit

by Daniel Gerwin May 26, 2017

In her solo show at Acme, Heather Rasmussen turns her own body into an allegory of desire.

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Landscape Art that Depicts More Than Nature

by Daniel Gerwin April 5, 2017April 5, 2017

The artist’s depiction of landscape is a subjective experience of the outdoors, a cultural and psychological construct.

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Thickly Layered Paintings that Glow with Their Own Light

by Daniel Gerwin February 22, 2017November 10, 2017

If painting maps the mind, then Steve DiBenedetto must be a very interesting guy to hang out with.

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Photographic Portraits of Transgender Life in the West Village

by Daniel Gerwin February 13, 2017February 13, 2017

In his new body of work, Mark Seliger, who is primarily a celebrity photographer, engages with the trans people in his own neighborhood.

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The Masterful, Unsettling Work of a Female Cuban Printmaker

by Daniel Gerwin December 20, 2016December 20, 2016

UCLA’s Fowler Museum has organized the first solo museum show in the US for Belkis Ayón, a black Cuban artist who was a master of collography.

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Colorful Canvases that Transform Worn-Out Clichés

by Daniel Gerwin September 30, 2016

LOS ANGELES — Glenn Goldberg seizes worn-out clichés that would seem unable to support weight and uses them to unexpectedly launch himself into painting.

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A Deep Dive into the Legacy of LA’s Surrealists

by Daniel Gerwin August 3, 2016August 5, 2016

LOS ANGELES — The official Made in L.A. show is at the Hammer Museum, but a felicitous counterpoint is currently at Richard Telles in the Fairfax district.

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Letting Go of the Distinction Between Figuration and Abstraction

by Daniel Gerwin June 14, 2016June 15, 2016

LOS ANGELES — A Shape That Stands Up at Art + Practice (A+P) gallery, in partnership with the Hammer Museum, claims to “[examine] the space between figuration and abstraction” — a great starting point unless you have the sneaking suspicion that this space disappeared decades ago.

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Chris Martin Finds a Muse in Amy Winehouse

by Daniel Gerwin May 12, 2016May 31, 2016

LOS ANGELES — Paintings about painting are really about life, proposals for how it might be lived.

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The Immortal Deer an Artist Set Loose in Grand Theft Auto

by Daniel Gerwin March 29, 2016August 3, 2021

I’ve never played Grand Theft Auto (GTA), but I have spent a decent amount of time watching a hacked — or, rather, “modded” — deer running through the GTA V live game, and I think this deer has something to tell us.

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