"Daniel Dove's paintings bring together the surreal paradoxes of our current age. His work engages the materiality of oil painting, an intensive traditionally physical medium of pigments, solvents, canvas and brushes; governed by touch and gesture; animated by and finding meaning in the ways in which we experience pictures today. At the same time, Dove's work considers the ways in which all kinds of images function in the third decade of the 21st-century, which for most of us is increasingly disembodied."
"In his new body of work, Daniel Dove uses uses digital and physical models to generate a range of earthly landscapes populated by ad-hoc structures. The paintings he derives out of these images - his world-building practice - finds a close parallel in the sort of image-making highlighted in "Arnold Böcklin, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst: A Journey into the Uncertain," the major exhibition organized by Kunsthaus Zürich curators Guido Magnaguagno and Juri Steiner in 1997."
Daniel Dove presents oil-on-canvas paintings that examine contemporary American life through a Realist approach rooted in depictions of ordinary people and scenes. The paintings emphasize oil's materiality — pigments, solvents, canvas and brushes — and foreground touch and gesture. Simultaneously, the works engage the increasingly disembodied nature of 21st-century image culture, shaped by alerts, online communities, video games, newsfeeds, Instagram and AI platforms like Chat GPT and Midjourney. Dove constructs earthly landscapes from digital and physical models, populating them with ad-hoc structures through a world-building practice that echoes Surrealist and Romantic image-making traditions.
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