Dan Colen
Dan Colen
Daniel Colenis an artist based in New York. His work consists of painted sculptures appropriating low-cultural ephemera, graffiti-inspired paintings of text executed in paint, and installations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth3 December 1979
CountryUnited States of America
bodies work
The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
against
It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
art thinking lenses
Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
art class art-class
Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
believe hard-work self-confidence
Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im going to really work hard for it and give it and its just going to matter to people. You really have to believe it all on your own.
believe conceive function hard matter serves work
It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.