Dan Arps
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Dan Arps, Equivalent, 2021, polyurethane and acrylic paint, 460 x 460 x 85mm
Dan Arps, The Floral Maze, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Dan Arps, The Floral Maze, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Dan Arps, The Floral Maze, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Dan Arps, The Floral Maze, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Dan Arps, Untitled (white painting #6), 2013, acrylic paint, on wood and polystyrene, 640 x 945mm
Dan Arps, Cloud Computer, 2017 acrylic on watercolour paper mounted on aluminium, 318 x 435mm
Dan Arps, Post Mute, 2011 wood, acrylic paint, epoxy, 325 x 415mm
Dan Arps & Fiona Clark, installation view, Michael Lett, 2019
Dan Arps & Fiona Clark, installation view, Michael Lett, 2019
Dan Arps, Crazee Dayzee (Special Effects Gold), 2018, polyurethane and enamel paint.
Dan Arps, Seated Figure, 2017, bronze, patina, 950 x 800 x 800mm
Dan Arps, Schreber Monument, (Washed Jedi), 2015, polyurethane, paint, 330 x 420 x 45mm
Dan Arps, Soft Grid (Evil Olive), 2015, polyurethane, paint, 900 x 900mm
Dan Arps, Plastic Mouthfeel II, Installation detail, Michael Lett, 2015
Dan Arps, Plastic Mouthfeel II, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2015
Dan Arps, Tree Form, 2015, dye-sublimation print on satin, 1700 x 1200mm
Dan Arps, Painting for Welfare Office, 2014, polyurethane resin, paint, 340 x 430 x 45mm
Dan Arps, Freedom Farmers, Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2013
Dan Arps, After Hobson Gardens, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2013
Dan Arps, Weak Idea Grid Study I, 2011, paper, acrylic on canvas, epoxy, steel, wood, 610 x 515 x 65mm
Dan Arps, Hobson Gardens, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2011
Dan Arps, A Rock That Was Taught It Was A Bird, Installation view, Artspace, 2010
Dan Arps, A Rock That Was Taught It Was A Bird, Installation view, Artspace, 2010
Dan Arps, Explaining Things, Installation view, Walters Prize, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2010
Dan Arps, Explaining Things, Installation view, Walters Prize, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2010
Dan Arps, The Floral Maze, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Dan Arps, The Floral Maze, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Dan Arps, Untitled (white painting #6), 2013, acrylic paint, on wood and polystyrene, 640 x 945mm
Dan Arps, Post Mute, 2011 wood, acrylic paint, epoxy, 325 x 415mm
Dan Arps & Fiona Clark, installation view, Michael Lett, 2019
Dan Arps, Seated Figure, 2017, bronze, patina, 950 x 800 x 800mm
Dan Arps, Soft Grid (Evil Olive), 2015, polyurethane, paint, 900 x 900mm
Dan Arps, Plastic Mouthfeel II, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2015
Dan Arps, Painting for Welfare Office, 2014, polyurethane resin, paint, 340 x 430 x 45mm
Dan Arps, After Hobson Gardens, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2013
Dan Arps, Hobson Gardens, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2011
Dan Arps, A Rock That Was Taught It Was A Bird, Installation view, Artspace, 2010
Dan Arps, Explaining Things, Installation view, Walters Prize, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2010
Dan Arps
Born 1976, Christchurch (NZ). Lives and works in Auckland (NZ)
Dan Arps’ installations, sculptures, and paintings fuse architecture, public space, and nomadic structures to expand and reflect upon modernist traditions of abstraction, alienation, and the everyday. His work explores and responds to the contemporary urban environment and its related subjectivities.
Arps gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) from the School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch in 2000. He received a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland in 2006 followed by a Doctor of Fine Arts in 2014. In 2010 he was awarded Aotearoa New Zealand’s premier contemporary art award, the Walter’s Prize, for his exhibition Explaining Things by international judge Vicente Todolí. Arps has exhibited extensively in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, as well as taking part in multiple international projects.
Selected recent solo exhibitions include: Parallel Universe, Neon Parc, Melbourne (2022); Sleepers, Robert Heald, Wellington (2021); The New Brutal, Disneyland Paris, Melbourne (2021) and The Floral Maze, Michael Lett, Auckland (2021). Work by Arps has also been included in the group presentations: Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show, Auckland Art Gallery Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2022-2023); Dungeon and Meadow, Melbourne (2021) ALIVE INSIDE, Neon Parc, Melbourne (2021); Encapsulated, Caves, Melbourne (2021); Abject Failures, Hastings City Art Gallery (2018); Space Suit, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2018); Necessary Distraction: A painting show, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2015); Local Knowledge, the Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt (2011) and the Sao Paolo Biennale (2004).
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Dan Arps, Equivalent, 2021, polyurethane and acrylic paint, 460 x 460 x 85mm
Dan Arps, The Floral Maze, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Dan Arps, The Floral Maze, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Dan Arps, The Floral Maze, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Dan Arps, The Floral Maze, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Dan Arps, Untitled (white painting #6), 2013, acrylic paint, on wood and polystyrene, 640 x 945mm
Dan Arps, Cloud Computer, 2017 acrylic on watercolour paper mounted on aluminium, 318 x 435mm
Dan Arps, Post Mute, 2011 wood, acrylic paint, epoxy, 325 x 415mm
Dan Arps & Fiona Clark, installation view, Michael Lett, 2019
Dan Arps & Fiona Clark, installation view, Michael Lett, 2019
Dan Arps, Crazee Dayzee (Special Effects Gold), 2018, polyurethane and enamel paint.
Dan Arps, Seated Figure, 2017, bronze, patina, 950 x 800 x 800mm
Dan Arps, Schreber Monument, (Washed Jedi), 2015, polyurethane, paint, 330 x 420 x 45mm
Dan Arps, Soft Grid (Evil Olive), 2015, polyurethane, paint, 900 x 900mm
Dan Arps, Plastic Mouthfeel II, Installation detail, Michael Lett, 2015
Dan Arps, Plastic Mouthfeel II, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2015
Dan Arps, Tree Form, 2015, dye-sublimation print on satin, 1700 x 1200mm
Dan Arps, Painting for Welfare Office, 2014, polyurethane resin, paint, 340 x 430 x 45mm
Dan Arps, Freedom Farmers, Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2013
Dan Arps, After Hobson Gardens, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2013
Dan Arps, Weak Idea Grid Study I, 2011, paper, acrylic on canvas, epoxy, steel, wood, 610 x 515 x 65mm
Dan Arps, Hobson Gardens, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2011
Dan Arps, A Rock That Was Taught It Was A Bird, Installation view, Artspace, 2010
Dan Arps, A Rock That Was Taught It Was A Bird, Installation view, Artspace, 2010
Dan Arps, Explaining Things, Installation view, Walters Prize, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2010
Dan Arps, Explaining Things, Installation view, Walters Prize, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2010