Daniel Turner on his Downtown Los Angeles Exhibition

For his debut solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, New York-based artist Daniel Turner will present works created from salvaged and recontextualized materials extracted from the Oxnard Generating Station, a decommissioned power plant in Oxnard, California. Turner's transformation of remnants from the former electrical plant into a series of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and film echoes a calibrated process of material distillation and site-responsive reflection.

Turner’s focused examination of the properties of alloys has led to large-scale paintings that utilize copper components extracted from the Oxnard site. Once removed, the material was spliced through an intricate milling process into refined copper wools. Subsequently, these wools were methodically burnished into the surface of the canvas, resulting in achromatic veils within his picture planes.

‘Daniel Turner’ continues through 25 August at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles.

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Hauser & Wirth is an international contemporary and modern art gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Gstaad, St. Moritz, Monaco, Menorca and Paris.

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[dizzydean]

A creative way to understand the process of a decommissioned electrical plant and bring it back to life by allowing it to become a work of art that once again creates energy. Well done Daniel!

[APOSTA-pzvs]

DT is a genius… spaces superimposed on spaces, these works need to be seen in person.

[VincentTroia]

i went to the show today. it blew me away, or more accurately daniel’s concepts blow me away. the idea of reducing spaces to liquid, to burned up detritus, to rub marks on a wall is so powerful. the scraps of metal and electrical elements and the circuit sheets complimented the paintings very well. extracting and isolating these factory parts from their original context imbued them with new, or at least different power and beauty… they had some catalogs upstairs to look through and the minimal way they were laid out with sparse titles and writing fit perfect with the photo content. imo daniel is the type of artist that makes me rethink the art i’m making, and how to think about art in genral. very few artists do that. so much art is too literal or representational while daniel is transmutational.

[randalllake]

The king’s new clothes. Art should speak for itself . If you have to explain it, then your project is a failure

[migzz]

Okay so at least it’s not throw up art but it’s not Dali either. Let’s face it the term ‘Masters’ in the world of art has been decommissioned. A little color wouldn’t hurt this exhibit though.

[shortminute]

It’s hard to see from my phone. The massive paintings look like they’d have strong visual impact and the gradient value connects to the story of providing electricity to Los Angeles.

The work and the artist made me think of Joseph Beuys with vocal fry.

It’s interesting to see Joseph Beuys’s style returning.