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Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Dan Walsh Release, 2023 acrylic on canvas 70 x 70 in. (177.8 x 177.8 cm)

Dan Walsh
Release, 2023
acrylic on canvas
70 x 70 in. (177.8 x 177.8 cm)

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, April 4 – May 18, 2024. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert

Dan Walsh Release, 2023 acrylic on canvas 70 x 70 in. (177.8 x 177.8 cm)

Dan Walsh
Release, 2023
acrylic on canvas
70 x 70 in. (177.8 x 177.8 cm)

An exhibition of new paintings by Dan Walsh will open on Thursday, April 4th at 534 West 21st Street. Expanding his investigation into system-based abstraction, Walsh’s new paintings appear effortless and inevitable despite the exacting process of their making. The composition of each painting is grounded along the lower edge and employs a vocabulary of unit-based forms—including lines, circles, lozenges, and rectangles, with some structured around a loose pyramidal shape. Walsh softens the geometry of the grid with movement, rounding the edges to form dynamic compositions illuminated in vibrant color. Subtle chromatic variations in paintings such as Rally, 2023, delight and trick the eye, playing with figure and ground and necessitating a curiously engaged looking. Of another painting in the show, Call, 2022, critic Bob Nickas has written:

The image simultaneously evokes electronic circuitry and Pacific Northwest totems, technological as well as symbolic visual languages, equally encoded—his image seemingly carved to be imprinted / painted. […] Call, in its pared down chromatics and “perforations,” also calls to mind wood veneers that have been incised, or a template from which other images may be generated. [1]

Rather than using preparatory drawings, Walsh has described how the logic of a painting reveals itself to him during its making, and the appearance of each work can change dramatically during the weeks spent systematically layering brushstrokes. This way of working arises from the artist’s equally prolific output in printmaking and artist’s books, mediums characterized by their inherent seriality. Also borrowed from his work with paper is the somewhat surprisingly handmade quality of the paintings, which activate his images with transformative humanism.

[1] Bob Nickas, Dan Walsh: The Process of Painting (Geneva and Zurich: JRP | Editions and Galerie Tschudi, 2023), p. 10.

Selected Works

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Dan Walsh

Stereo, 2023

acrylic on canvas

70 x 70 in. (177.8 x 177.8 cm)

Photo: Steven Probert

Dan Walsh

Stereo, 2023

acrylic on canvas

70 x 70 in. (177.8 x 177.8 cm)

Photo: Steven Probert

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Dan Walsh Rate, 2023 acrylic on canvas 55 x 55 in. (139.7 x 139.7 cm)

Dan Walsh
Rate, 2023
acrylic on canvas
55 x 55 in. (139.7 x 139.7 cm)

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Dan Walsh Release, 2023 acrylic on canvas 70 x 70 in. (177.8 x 177.8 cm)

Dan Walsh
Release, 2023
acrylic on canvas
70 x 70 in. (177.8 x 177.8 cm)

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Dan Walsh LHP-WC 19, 2024 watercolor on Lana hot press paper 26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm) frame: 28 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (72.1 x 72.1 x 4.4 cm)

Dan Walsh
LHP-WC 19, 2024
watercolor on Lana hot press paper
26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm)
frame: 28 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (72.1 x 72.1 x 4.4 cm)

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Dan Walsh LHP-WC 21, 2024 watercolor on Lana hot press paper 26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm) frame: 28 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. Titled lower left, signed and dated lower right recto

Dan Walsh
LHP-WC 21, 2024
watercolor on Lana hot press paper
26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm)
frame: 28 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
Titled lower left, signed and dated lower right recto

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Dan Walsh LHP-WC 22, 2024 watercolor on Lana hot press paper 26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm) 28 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (72.1 x 72.1 x 4.4 cm)

Dan Walsh
LHP-WC 22, 2024
watercolor on Lana hot press paper
26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm)
28 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (72.1 x 72.1 x 4.4 cm)

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Dan Walsh

Stereo, 2023

acrylic on canvas

70 x 70 in. (177.8 x 177.8 cm)

Photo: Steven Probert

Dan Walsh

Stereo, 2023

acrylic on canvas

70 x 70 in. (177.8 x 177.8 cm)

Photo: Steven Probert

Dan Walsh Rate, 2023 acrylic on canvas 55 x 55 in. (139.7 x 139.7 cm)

Dan Walsh
Rate, 2023
acrylic on canvas
55 x 55 in. (139.7 x 139.7 cm)

Dan Walsh Release, 2023 acrylic on canvas 70 x 70 in. (177.8 x 177.8 cm)

Dan Walsh
Release, 2023
acrylic on canvas
70 x 70 in. (177.8 x 177.8 cm)

Dan Walsh LHP-WC 19, 2024 watercolor on Lana hot press paper 26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm) frame: 28 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (72.1 x 72.1 x 4.4 cm)

Dan Walsh
LHP-WC 19, 2024
watercolor on Lana hot press paper
26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm)
frame: 28 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (72.1 x 72.1 x 4.4 cm)

Dan Walsh LHP-WC 21, 2024 watercolor on Lana hot press paper 26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm) frame: 28 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. Titled lower left, signed and dated lower right recto

Dan Walsh
LHP-WC 21, 2024
watercolor on Lana hot press paper
26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm)
frame: 28 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
Titled lower left, signed and dated lower right recto

Dan Walsh LHP-WC 22, 2024 watercolor on Lana hot press paper 26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm) 28 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (72.1 x 72.1 x 4.4 cm)

Dan Walsh
LHP-WC 22, 2024
watercolor on Lana hot press paper
26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm)
28 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (72.1 x 72.1 x 4.4 cm)