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Daniel Brush: Blue Steel Pure Gold

November 2003

Over the course of thirty years, working in virtual seclusion from the mainstream, Daniel Brush has created a body of work unique in contemporary art. His career includes international painting exhibitions, a fifteen-year period of seclusion and study, and an intense immersion into the mysteries of gold.

His large-scale canvases and drawings—inspired by the expressive, disciplined gestures of the Noh theatre—integrate the artist’s profound understanding of Oriental thought with the removed drama in modernist painting. Brush’s more recent objects—products of more than a decade of solitary thought, study, and experimentation—are known only to a select group of collectors and connoisseurs.

Daniel Brush has developed a rigorous personal aesthetic marked by its intellectual force, mastery of techniques and the science of materials. His idiosyncratic, contemplative work marks a journey of evolving mastery, and bodies forth a deeply expressive voice in American art.

Daniel Brush, born in 1947, lives and works with his family in New York City. During his career, he has had individual exhibitions of paintings at the Phillips Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and most recently a retrospective of objects and sculpture at The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art. An artist monograph, Daniel Brush: Gold without Boundaries, was published by Harry N. Abrams in 1998. The exhibition at the Lannan Foundation presented a selection of sculptures made in the previous six years.