Dan Flanagan
Intuitively visually engaging. Vivid. A dance between abstraction and figuration. Connotations appearing and disappearing, like skies transitioning in and out of awareness. Lines, gestures and marks laid bare. A transparent history of creation. Layers upon layers of paint. Dense lakes of oil paint, frenetic lines and subtle scribbles. Bold gestures flanking open suggestions. Traces of movement in and on the canvas, hands and feet, indicating body reach. Velocity, gravity and intention shaping transient compositions, evolving with the eye and mind of the beholder. Vibrating. Shape shifting. Dan Flanagan’s paintings are radiant entities.
Born 1983 in Madison, WI
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2008 BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2006-7 New York Studio School, New York, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
New Being, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Solo exhibition, Harper’s, East Hampton, NY
2022
Ash of a Flame That Burns Well, Harper’s, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Everything Is a Lot of Things, Harper’s, New York, NY
2019
Dan Flanagan: Huddle, Mulherin Toronto, Toronto, ON
2015
New Nudes, Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Popup exhibition, The Shilla, Seoul, KR 25 Years, Harper’s, East Hampton, NY
2021
Melrose, Harper’s, Los Angeles, CA EXPO Chicago (online)
2020
Solitaire, PROTO Gallery (online)
2019
Reprise: American fine arts, an allegory for americas, BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA
Supper, Deli-Grocery Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Pulled in Brooklyn, International Print Center, New York, NY
2018
Living’ a Dream Reality, Marvin Gardens, Ridgewood, NY Strap Your Hands Across
My Engines, Tin Flats, Los Angeles, CA FOUR ROOMS, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY
2017
Tropical Hotdog Night, BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA
The Paperweight Show, Fisher Parrish, Brooklyn, NY
2016
30 Under 30-ish, VICTORI + MO, Brooklyn, NY
2015
99¢ Plus Art Shop II, 99¢ Plus, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Fair and Used, The Front, New Orleans, LA
LA FILM SCREENINGS
2017
Art Toronto Short Film Selection, Art Toronto, Toronto, ON
2013
Bushwick Open Studios Film Festival, Bat Haus, Brooklyn NY
2012
Video night, AIRPLANE,
Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED PRESS
2020
Erik Sommer, “In the Studio: Dan Flanagan,” Mott Projects, July 10, 2020
2017
“Dan Flanagan: Entre illusion et sexualité affirmée,” Beware! Magazine, June 2, 2017
2016
Margaux Vanwetswinkel, “Ces artistes qui font monter la température sur Instagram,” Vanity Fair France, September 9, 2016
Rachel Lynch, “Inside the Head of Painter Dan Flanagan,” Nakid, July 6, 2016
