Though visually similar to previous works, the paintings I’ve made in quarantine have a more personal tint to them. They are directly linked to growing anxieties, objects around the apartment, and the repetitiveness of the mundane. They are both composed and cluttered- a reflection of one’s performative self in a chaotic time. They draw on a past rooted in growing up around different languages and creating a context that plays on pan-linguistic-visual concepts and distills ideas into images that are a confluence of cross cultural references and experiences in a single picture plane. They are all absurd and serious, just like life in 2020.
Dan Fig is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He is the co-founder and organizer of RAD Group, an artist led reading and discussion collective. Recent shows include Platform at Winston Wäcther and Faux Real at SK Arts, both in New York. He has shown at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Seattle, The Hole in New York, and the Koppel Project in London, among others. He received his MFA from Hunter College and a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
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