Dan Herschlein

Dan Herschlein’s sculptures and performances caricature sinister domestic scenes, made familiar by horror movies and the news. Cut-away interiors, window boxes, and open chests position the viewer as voyeur, often revealing limbs or truncated bodies dressed in Herschlein’s clothes. Presenting human detritus, such as deconstructed chairs, jeans, drinking glasses, and plywood, alongside outdated technology, such as handmade slides, videos, his works explore the degradation of both the human body and its image.

He has had solo exhibitions in New York at JTT and 55 Gansevoort, and Los Angeles at Automata. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Signal in Brooklyn, Exile in Berlin, and Recess Activities in New York.