Daniel Brice: New Paintings and Works on Paper
Western Project is proud to present the third solo exhibition by Los Angeles artist, Daniel Brice. Continuing his investigation of the coastal landscape, Brice has stepped up his geometric and rough-hewn works to cinematic size. In the lineage of historic artists interpreting western America, such as Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran, Brice constructs large scale paintings to speak of the immense beauty and natural wonder of the California landscape. His minimal abstract language does not utilize the drama of Bierstadt鈥檚 works, but lays claim to the same idea of grandeur. Saturated color is Brice鈥檚 tool to relate the immensity of the Pacific Ocean; a fathomless depth of blue is bordered with simple borders; the artist owns his subject with eloquent suggestion. It is his luminous color 鈥� akin to Thomas鈥� use of light in his landscapes, which relates the feel of specific climate and place.
Contrasting the sense of cool coastal weather, Brice uses intense reds and oranges to express the heat of California valleys and interior terrain. A solid block of intense reds, again thinly bordered, evokes the summer heat of Southern California and the claustrophobic Santa Ana winds off the desert. His green and white paintings relate more subtle seasons or temperature; soft spring or arid fall moments. Brice鈥檚 particular use of oil paint echoes Brice Marden鈥檚 1970鈥瞫 abstractions; intuiting place and feel, scent and light. But the use of burlap instead of canvas gives these works a rougher, more 鈥榃estern鈥� and hand made quality 鈥� less European, less precious, and innately more emotive. Landscape painting has never looked so calloused and alluring.
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Western Project is proud to present the third solo exhibition by Los Angeles artist, Daniel Brice. Continuing his investigation of the coastal landscape, Brice has stepped up his geometric and rough-hewn works to cinematic size. In the lineage of historic artists interpreting western America, such as Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran, Brice constructs large scale paintings to speak of the immense beauty and natural wonder of the California landscape. His minimal abstract language does not utilize the drama of Bierstadt鈥檚 works, but lays claim to the same idea of grandeur. Saturated color is Brice鈥檚 tool to relate the immensity of the Pacific Ocean; a fathomless depth of blue is bordered with simple borders; the artist owns his subject with eloquent suggestion. It is his luminous color 鈥� akin to Thomas鈥� use of light in his landscapes, which relates the feel of specific climate and place.
Contrasting the sense of cool coastal weather, Brice uses intense reds and oranges to express the heat of California valleys and interior terrain. A solid block of intense reds, again thinly bordered, evokes the summer heat of Southern California and the claustrophobic Santa Ana winds off the desert. His green and white paintings relate more subtle seasons or temperature; soft spring or arid fall moments. Brice鈥檚 particular use of oil paint echoes Brice Marden鈥檚 1970鈥瞫 abstractions; intuiting place and feel, scent and light. But the use of burlap instead of canvas gives these works a rougher, more 鈥榃estern鈥� and hand made quality 鈥� less European, less precious, and innately more emotive. Landscape painting has never looked so calloused and alluring.
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