Details:
① Artwork:
In the Hole Of Homes II
This artwork fuses elements of painting and sculpture to portray a haunting domestic scene, continuing the artist’s conceptual exploration of how security relates to gender, the home, and the self. Herschlein’s dramatic shading of the work’s raised rim, which surrounds a night view of a house precariously balanced on rocks emerging from a lake, evokes a sense of foreboding while, at the same time, beckoning the viewer closer.
Herschlein’s application of pigment in paste (along with their use of home construction skills like furniture-making) gives their work an accessible, real-world texture. In doing so, they imbue their folkloric domestic environments with an uncanny intimacy and visceral atmosphere within which we feel eerily at home.
Dan Herschlein uses images of the body and horror tropes to explore the human desire for comfort and emotional understanding. Herschlein’s sculptures and reliefs in wood, plaster, and wax depict headless, scarecrow-like figures and dismembered body parts, which, in their totality, feel simultaneously unsettling and surprisingly tender. Alienation, aloneness, and fear also pervade Herschlein’s work, with the intent of sparking deeper self-reflection.
Specs:
② Offered by:
③ Artist:
Working in sculpture, drawing, and performance, Dan Herschlein uses images of the body and horror tropes to explore the human desire for comfort and emotional understanding. Herschlein’s sculptures and reliefs in wood, plaster, and wax depict headless, scarecrow-like figures and dismembered body parts, which, in their totality, feel simultaneously unsettling and surprisingly tender. The voyeur is a recurring character in Herschlein’s oeuvre – not as a threat but as the ultimate "outsider." Alienation, aloneness, and fear also pervade Herschlein’s art, with the intent of sparking deeper self-reflection.
Dan Herschlein was born in 1989 in Bayville, NY, and lives in Los Angeles, CA. They received their BFA from New York University in New York City, NY (2010).
Herschlein has mounted recent solo exhibitions at Matthew Brown in Los Angeles, CA (2021, 2019); JTT in New York City, NY (2020, 2019, 2017); The New Museum in New York City, NY (2018); and 56 Henry in New York City, NY (2016).
Their group exhibitions include River Styx at Sea View in Los Angeles, CA (2023); The Tale Their Terror Tells at Lyles & King in New York City, NY (2022); Recent Sculpture at Matthew Brown in Los Angeles, CA (2022); Theorem X at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York City, NY (2021); It Seems So Long Ago at Matthew Brown in Los Angeles, CA (2020); Ecce Puer at PACT in Paris, France (2020); and others.
This artwork fuses elements of painting and sculpture to portray a haunting domestic scene, continuing the artist’s conceptual exploration of how security relates to gender, the home, and the self. Herschlein’s dramatic shading of the work’s raised rim, which surrounds a night view of a house precariously balanced on rocks emerging from a lake, evokes a sense of foreboding while, at the same time, beckoning the viewer closer.More
- Framed: 18.0 x 20.5 x 1.5 in.
- Signed on verso
