Daniel Dove's recent paintings depict structures in states of transition, either half-ruined or partially reconstructed. The subjects of Dove's pictures range from suburban landscape detritus to charged contemporary artifacts (such as reconstructed bombed airplane fuselages), which are meticulously re-built to understand or reinvent their original trauma. In this rebuilding, Dove's objects reveal a longing for completeness that can never be restored, much the way that his highly composed canvases offer distilled, ordered fictions based on chaotic and often dangerous real-world events.
Image: Daneil Dove,
Odeon, 2010. Oil on canvas. 52 x 104 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
