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Capsule is pleased to present artist Daniel Chen’s (b. 1997, Huntsville, Alabama) second solo exhibition Time to Say Goodbye, on view from April 26 to June 28, 2025. The exhibition features paintings made between 2023 and 2025, during which the artist underwent a profound personal loss—the passing of his father. Painting became a way for him to record and process emotions, and a gift to his father and the audience.
Materiality is at the heart of Chen’s practice. Born in the 1990s in the U.S. and trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, Chen’s artistic exploration has been shaped by the practices of abstract artists active in New York in the 1980s—such as Jonathan Lasker, Joan Snyder, David Salle, Stephen Mueller, and Bill Jensen, who, in an attempt to break away from the austerity of minimalism and conceptualism, began rethinking how to introduce rich brushwork into space and imbue the process of painting with metaphors and physicality. Many of them remain...More
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Capsule is pleased to present artist Daniel Chen’s (b. 1997, Huntsville, Alabama) second solo exhibition Time to Say Goodbye, on view from April 26 to June 28, 2025. The exhibition features paintings made between 2023 and 2025, during which the artist underwent a profound personal loss—the passing of his father. Painting became a way for him to record and process emotions, and a gift to his father and the audience.
Materiality is at the heart of Chen’s practice. Born in the 1990s in the U.S. and trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, Chen’s artistic exploration has been shaped by the practices of abstract artists active in New York in the 1980s—such as Jonathan Lasker, Joan Snyder, David Salle, Stephen Mueller, and Bill Jensen, who, in an attempt to break away from the austerity of minimalism and conceptualism, began rethinking how to introduce rich brushwork into space and imbue the process of painting with metaphors and physicality. Many of them remain...More
