Dan Perkins

Dan Perkins lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from American University. He has shown at Rachel Uffner, Deanna Evans Projects, Sperone Westwater, Hashimoto Contemporary, Launch F18, Mana Contemporary, and elsewhere. His work is held in the collections of Capital One, Fidelity Investments, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Katzen Museum of American University, as well as in many private collections. His work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, Booooooom, Wired Italia, Art of Choice, Archive 00, Two Coats of Paint, Artsy, ArtMaze Mag, and the Washington Post.

Dan Perkins’ work channels architectural motifs that connote space: crossing through a threshold, gazing through a window, passing from one plane to another. However the spaces depicted sit in an ethereal haze, where color and form are primary. Scale, time and space are all negotiable, up to the viewer to frame and understand.

Perkins works serially across compositional pairs and triads ranging through color and light as an expressive and descriptive phenomenon. The tension between the structure of the geometry and the fluidity of light creates an interesting paradox. Material and atmosphere seem one and the same, and the bodily nature of existence perhaps dissipates, allowing an extensive and encompassing understanding of the world. The paintings beckon and shimmer, inviting the viewer to enter their space and dwell.

EXHIBITIONS:
NADA Miami 2025
Dan Perkins, Passages, 2023