Curve
"Curve" by Dan Colen is a striking work rendered in acrylic on hollow plastic, a material choice that reflects the artist's ongoing interest in unconventional surfaces and the tension between fragility and form. The work embodies Colen's signature interplay of raw energy and deliberate composition, with the fluid suggestion of a curve evoking both organic movement and abstract restraint. The hollow nature of the substrate adds a subtle dimension of absence and vulnerability, inviting viewers to consider what lies beneath the surface.
- Medium
- acrylic on hollow plastic
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
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September 26, 2018
Artists in conversation
Wade Guyton
American · b. 1972
Guyton similarly works with unconventional substrates and industrial materials to create abstract compositions that interrogate the relationship between form and surface, often employing minimal geometric elements with a conceptual underpinning that mirrors Colen's approach in Curve.
Tauba Auerbach
American · b. 1981
Auerbach's practice explores geometric abstraction and organic curves rendered through experimental materials and neutral tonal palettes, sharing Curve's neo-conceptual sensibility and its tension between mathematical structure and fluid, bodily suggestion.
Haim Steinbach
American · b. 1944
Steinbach's neo-conceptual use of plastic and hollow synthetic materials to probe themes of absence, consumer form, and surface vulnerability aligns closely with the material and conceptual concerns Colen explores through the hollow plastic substrate in Curve.
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