Over the course of thirty years,
working in virtual seclusion from the mainstream, Daniel Brush has
created a body of work unique in contemporary art. His career includes
international
painting exhibitions, a fifteen-year period of seclusion and study,
and an intense immersion into the mysteries of gold.
His
large-scale canvases and drawings—inspired by the expressive,
disciplined gestures of the Noh theatre—integrate the artist's
profound understanding of Oriental thought with the removed drama in
modernist painting. Brush's more
recent objects—products of more than a decade of solitary thought,
study, and experimentation—are known only to a select group of
collectors and connoisseurs. Daniel
Brush has developed
a rigorous personal aesthetic marked by its intellectual force, mastery
of techniques and the science of materials. His idiosyncratic, contemplative
work marks a journey of evolving mastery, and bodies forth a deeply
expressive voice in American art.
Daniel
Brush , born in 1947, lives and works with his family
in New York City. During his career, he has had individual exhibitions
of paintings at the Phillips Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of
Art, and most recently a retrospective of objects and sculpture
at The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art.
An artist monograph, Daniel
Brush : Gold without Boundaries, was published
by Harry N. Abrams in 1998. The current exhibition at the Lannan Foundation
presents a selection of sculptures made in the last six years.