{"id":850,"date":"2010-02-04T12:35:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=850"},"modified":"2011-07-31T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T17:49:13","slug":"william-daniels-paintings-at-luhring-augustine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/william-daniels-paintings-at-luhring-augustine\/","title":{"rendered":"William Daniels, “Paintings” at Luhring Augustine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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William Daniels, "Untitled," 2009. Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, Vilma Gold, London and Marc Foxx, Los Angeles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI thought they\u2019d be bigger!\u201d exclaimed one visitor to William Daniels\u2019s first New York solo show of oil-on-board paintings, none bigger than 13 inches square. In reproductions, Daniels\u2019s images of angular metallic surfaces\u2014mystery objects wrapped in aluminum foil situated within foil-covered sets\u2014grab attention. In person, the seven tiny pieces dotting the walls of the main gallery convey a cheery yet shallow intimacy, evoking shiny candy wrappers or Christmas lights glinting off an ornament.<\/p>\n

Despite the bonhomie of pretty hues, Daniels\u2019s subject matter is monotonous, and seesaws between superrealism and lyrical license\u2014a style that\u2019s especially frustrating when the objects are hard to distinguish from their backgrounds and merge into shallow planes of crinkly foil. Eschewing the temptation to depict people or things in reflection\u2014\u00e0 la Jan van Eyck\u2019s\u00a0The Arnolfini Wedding<\/em>, for example\u2014Daniels rejects references to the outside world, creating little hermetic dioramas of light and color, calculated to break boundaries between abstraction and representation, painting and sculpture, by being all at once.<\/p>\n

Undoubtedly, this show proves Daniels\u2019s painterly ability and experimental creativity. But unlike his previous meticulously painted reproductions of torn-paper collages sending up or paying homage to canonical art-historical images, the latest work is, unfortunately, literally reflective, and not metaphorically so. The foil covered objects recall John Chamberlain\u2019s twisted auto parts without their bravado, or James Rosenquist\u2019s chrome panels segueing into spaghetti minus the subject matter. Ultimately, while Daniels\u2019s paintings connect with the contemporary fashion for antimonumentality, they have disappointingly little to say.<\/p>\n

Originally published in Time Out New York, issue 748, January 28 – February 3, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI thought they\u2019d be bigger!\u201d exclaimed one visitor to William Daniels\u2019s first New York solo show of oil-on-board paintings, none bigger than 13 inches square. In reproductions, Daniels\u2019s images of angular metallic surfaces\u2014mystery objects wrapped in aluminum foil situated within foil-covered sets\u2014grab attention. In person, the seven tiny pieces dotting the walls of the main … <\/p>\n

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