Dan Douke: When & Where
Upcoming exhibition
Overview
Dan Douke
When & Where, 2013
acrylic on 3 stretched canvases
28 1/2 x 38 x 15 in
72.4 x 96.5 x 38.1 cm
72.4 x 96.5 x 38.1 cm
Quint Gallery presents a new work in the rotating vault at ONE, located in the Bread & Salt art building in Logan Heights. There will be opening receptions across Bread & Salt this Saturday, June 13, from 5:00-8:00pm.
Daniel Douke’s illusionary objects pays homage to the timeless medium of acrylic on canvas while pushing it further into objecthood with his hyperrealistic recreations of product boxes, wooden crates, and sheets of metal. Douke’s objects’ commonality lie in their means to an end, and his focus on packaging material comes across as an appreciation or worship of the things that serve us and shape our lifestyles to an unseen degree, forcing us to observe them carefully and thoughtfully. His 2013 hybrid painting-sculpture When & Where presents a visual shorthand color-coding system often found to differentiate grades and types of lumber at construction stores, which often create an unintentional field of color or geometric patterns.
Born in Los Angeles in 1943 and raised in the Pasadena area, Douke earned both his B.A. and M.A. from California State University, Los Angeles, where he later taught for many years. Emerging from the abundant artistic landscape of Southern California in the late 1960s and 1970s, Douke belongs to a generation of artists who challenged conventional distinctions between object and image, extending the concerns of postwar West Coast art into new territory. While often associated with photorealism, his work is equally linked to the conceptual notions of the readymade, the material subtlety of Finish Fetish practices, and the perceptual investigations that characterized much Los Angeles art of the period. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, including solo exhibitions at the Crocker Art Museum and with Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles and Stremmel Gallery, Reno. His paintings are held in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Orange County Museum of Art, and the Portland Art Museum.
Selected Works
