Assembly

Galerie Thomas Schulte is pleased to present Assembly, a solo exhibition featuring recent paintings by Dan Walsh. Here, Walsh continues his process-oriented approach to generating images that are reduced in vocabulary yet layered in intricate systems. Initially appearing as smooth, minimalist patterns of discrete units, they gradually reveal disruptions, irregularities, and gentle traces. These compositions are structured around geometric, grid-like rows and columns, where the images' cells soften at the edges, becoming fluid and, at times, taking the form of pods or capsules. Accumulations of time, paint, and form produce continuous shifts: from vibrant juxtapositions of color and alternations of black and white that recall classical optical illusions, to faint changes in contrast and nuanced gradients. In the square, medium-scale canvases, seriality and its subtle variations playfully unfold, as the images envelop us in their visual world - seemingly constructing their own internal logic only to subvert it. Dan Walsh, born in 1960 in Philadelphia, is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, printmaking, bookmaking and sculpture. He studied at Philadelphia College of Art and at Hunter College in New York. Walsh has exhibited widely in the U.S. and Europe at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum in New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; the Centre national d'art contemporain in Nice; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence; the Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; and the Speerstra Foundation in Lausanne. His prints and limited-edition books were showcased in a solo exhibition at the Cabinet des Estampes in Geneva. Walsh's work has been featured in major international events, including the Whitney Biennial in 2014, the Ljubljiana Biennial in Slovenia and the Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art in France. Afterwards in 2016, he collaborated with his sister, Lexa Walsh, on the two-person exhibition Both Sides Now at the Williams College Museum of Art. In 2019, a yearlong retrospective of his work spanning a decade was held at the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, co-organized with the Jan van Eyck Academie.

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