Lavi Daniel: A Seed With a Mind of It's Own. 2013. Photographed by Grant Mudford.
Lavi Daniel: A Seed With a Mind of It's Own Installation view. 2013.
Progression With Red Roots. 2012
Oil on canvas
10 1/4 x 8 1/4”
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Sentinel. 2012
Oil on canvas
10 1/4 x 8 1/4”
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Corner Sprout. 2012
Oil on canvas
10 1/4 x 8 1/4”
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Upheaval I. 2011 - 2012
Oil paint on metal can, wood table
Sculpture: 11 1/4 x 10 9/2”
Table: 30 x 15 1/2 x 12 1/2”
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The Virtues of a Genetically Unstable Seed. 2012
Oil on canvas
56 x 68 1/8”
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Stacking Angelico's Hats. 2012
Oil on canvas
84 x 96 1/2”
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Matter Contemplating Itself. 2012
Oil on canvas
10 1/4 x 8 1/4”
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Concentrating on Concentration. 2012
Oil on canvas
8 ¼ x 10 ¼”
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Blue Light on Red Rocker. 2012
Oil on canvas
10 1/4 x 8 1/4"
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Stacking Angelica's Hats, Small Version. 2012
Oil on canvas
8 1/4 x 10 1/4”
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Thinking Cap. 2012
Oil on canvas
8 1/4 x 10 1/4”
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Installation view. 2013
The Body of an Intimate Idea. 2013
Oil on canvas
15 1/4 x 12 1/4”
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Bright and Upright. 2013
Oil on canvas
15 1/4 x 12 1/4”
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Offspring. 2013
Oil on canvas
15 1/4 x 12 1/4”
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From Slips and Cuttings. 2012
Oil on canvas
84 x 72”
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A Seed With A Mind of Its Own. 2012
Oil on canvas
84 x 72”
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A Colony Encoded To Wonder. 2012
Oil on canvas
62 x 60 1/4”
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Upheaval II. 2011-2013
Oil paint on metal can, wood table
Sculpture: 15 x 13 x 11"
Table: 30 x 16 x 12 1/2”
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Thinking To Scatter and Sow. 2012
Oil on canvas
84 1/4 x 72 1/4”
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Harvest of Illuminated Forms. 2012
Oil on canvas
8 1/4 x 10 1/4”
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Body of Sky. 2012
Oil on canvas
8 1/4 x 10 1/4
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Liminal Red. 2012
Oil on canvas
8 1/4 X 10 1/4”
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The Dream of the Dreamt Of. 2012
Oil on canvas
10 1/4 x 8 1/4”
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Rosamund Felsen Gallery is pleased to announce its third exhibition of new works by Los Angeles based artist Lavi Daniel, "A Seed With A Mind Of Its Own," consisting of nine large scale oil paintings, a dozen miniature paintings, and two sculptures.
In his new group of paintings, Daniel uses a compositional approach of moving to and through the center of the picture plane. Relying on considerations of how a seed instructs the environment to spawn its imagery, Daniel "looks to create situations that our daydreams live in." The paintings are constructed of abstract progressions comprised of fragments that seem to come together through the artist’s muscularly fugitive application of keyed color and light. The works are abstract and integrated by their feel for flux and continuity, while at the same time, they are infused with a sensual and atmospheric sense of the real. Color takes on a kind of phantasmagorical primacy, where the incidents of dynamism and drama take place along the edges where forms join. Daniel's two new sculptures are made from re-purposed paint that has been scraped and removed from his paintings and built into masses of colored movements. The color and surface are intensely varied, inducing a feeling of unrelenting beauty through tectonic upheaval. "When I make these works, I feel as though I am encoded to instruct the environment, just as a seed is".
