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SELECTED WORKS BY Daniel Hesidence



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Daniel Hesidence

Untitled (post FARM Paintings)

2005
Oil on canvas

214 x 183 cm

Daniel Hesidence approaches his practice as a philosophical totality. Situating himself as the inventor of an ever-expanding universe, Hesidence’s individual pieces provide mere glimpses into a creative infinite. Composing his work in ‘volumes’, Hesidence’s paintings document a self-propelled evolution. Each canvas is distinct yet interconnected, holding its own place in his ‘cosmological’ timeline. Untitled is indicative of Hesidence’s stream of consciousness process. Emerging from the blank white canvas, impassioned smears of colour form a halo around a suggested figure. Rather than defining an image, Hesidence uses the malleable qualities of paint to portray an emotional and psychological state. Distant and dream-like, the intricacies of sentient gesture form a physical representation of the intangibility and impermanence of thought.


Daniel Hesidence

Untitled (FARM Paintings)

2004
Oil on canvas

244 x 214 cm

Embracing painting as an unlimited form of expression, Daniel Hesidence’s works describe a means of sub-language communication, something primal and emotive that exceeds linguistic structure. Hesidence’s style ranges from figuration to abstraction, but his subject matter is always what lies beyond the surface. Ranging from dense impasto to delicate washes, frenzied brushmarks and disquieting voids, Hesidence’s refined techniques transform reticent sentiment into tactile physicality. Mapping out the idyllic meanderings of cerebral terrain, Untitled’s colourful fantasia playfully conveys amorphous vitality with an aura of pastoral calm.


Daniel Hesidence

Untitled (FARM Paintings)

2003
Oil on canvas

274.3 x 152.4 cm

Sensations of velocity and beautified discord are omnipresent throughout Daniel Hesidence’s work. Executed with a poetic sensitivity, his compositions convey both intimacy and turmoil. Through gesture, mark-making and an intuitive handling of his medium, his forms attempt to decode both personal and social consciousness. Hesidence approaches his work as a way to process collected information, to rationalise the instinctual visual dialogue through which we interpret our environment. Through reassembling forms, images and impressions, Hesidence transcribes this language through his own experience and dialect, offering alternative perceptions and meanings based in creative possibility.


Daniel Hesidence

Untitled (post FARM Paintings)

2005
Oil on canvas

244 x 183 cm

Recalling the Abstract Expressionist’s contemplative fields, Daniel Hesidence’s canvases ebb towards the transcendental. In negotiating visual articulation Hesidence reconvenes with an elusive and long-forgotten collective experience. In Untitled, Hesidence’s grid-like composition dissembles with chaotic uncertainty as tranquil hues of opposing colour converge with awkward grace. Hesidence’s paintings possess a synaesthetic quality: their visual surfaces conjure sensual associations of sound, touch, motion and scent. Describing the totality of perceptual experience through paint, Hesidence’s work strives to evoke a deeper lever of shared consciousness.


Daniel Hesidence

Untitled (FARM Paintings)

2003
Oil on canvas

259 x 335 cm

Daniel Hesidence describes his work as a process of decoding consciousness. Working from a memory bank of visual information his practice is based on an intuitive negotiation of imagination through tangible media, narrating the sluices of thought through spontaneous and unmediated painterly response. Often working on several canvases simultaneously, each image feeds into and progresses from a continuous dialogue. In Untitled, the form of a horse dissipates into a torrential abstracted field. Painted with restrained energy, raw emotions of power and sexuality are tempered through Hesidence’s romantic palette and sybaritic brushwork. Rendered in monumental scale, Untitled is arresting in its passive grandeur; its dramatic climax is emitted with an unsettling elegance and rarefied potency.


Daniel Hesidence

Untitled ( 1 7 3 6 )

2006
Oil on canvas

243.8 x 305 cm

1 7 3 6 is from Daniel Mimicking the flickering seduction of fire, Hesidence presents an entanglement of colour that dances across the canvas with effulgent brilliance.Hesidence’s most recent body of work. Shifting from the lyrical eclecticism of his FARM and Post FARM paintings, 1 7 3 6 is forceful in its visual intensity. Punctuating deep greens and cool violets with radiant white highlights, Hesidence’s 1736 conveys both a spectral luminosity and sculptural depth. Giving physical form to ethereal sentiment, Hesidence’s impassioned gestures and gaseous hues transpire as a consuming field of meditative fixation.



ARTIST INFORMATION




Daniel Hesidence's BIOGRAPHY



1975
Born in Akron

Lives in Long Island City


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2004
Feature Inc., New York, NY
M du B, F, H & g, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Feature Inc., New York, NY

2002
Feature Inc., New York, NY
M du B, F, H & g, Montreal, Quebec, Canada


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2005
Gabriela Fridriksdóttir, Daniel Hesidence, Will Ryman, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York
The Sun Rises in the Evening, Feature Inc., New York
Richard Aldrich, Olivia Booth, Brian Fahlstrom, Carrie Gundersdorf, Daniel Hesidence, Candace Nycz, Sterling Ruby, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Greater New York 2005, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
Traces Everywhere, Tracy Williams, Ltd, New York
The Hills Have Eyes, Ingalls Gallery, Miami

2003
Flesh and Blood: The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York
Fright Wig, Feature Inc., New York

2002
Landscape, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
The Funeral Home, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles

2001
Another, once again, many times more, Feature Inc., New York

 


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