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Daniel Turner

Daniel Turner was born in 1983 in Portsmouth, Virginia USA. He received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006 and currently lives and works in New York NY. Turner’s work has been the subject of international exhibitions including; ‘Daniel Turner’ at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa TX; ‘2 220’, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium; ‘Die Kräfte Hinter Den Formen’, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck Austria; ‘Eclat Attraction de la Ruine’, Université’, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France; ‘(IPN)’, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers France; ‘L’expostion D’un Film’, Centre d’Art Contemporain / Foundation Arditi, Geneva Switzerland; ‘Die Kräfte Hinter Den Formen’, Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Museen Haus Esters und Haus Lange, Krefeld Germany; Particle Processed Cafeteria, König Galerie, Berlin Germany; ‘Freezer Burn’, Hauser & Wirth, New York NY; ‘you, your sun and shadow’, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; ‘PM’ Team Gallery New York NY; ‘Clear’, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles CA; ‘Four Rooms’, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; ‘Expanded Painting’, The Prague Biennale 5, Prague, Czech Republic; and ‘Modern Talking’, Muzeul de Arta Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania. Turner served as a visiting scholar at New York University from 2009-2010. Turner’s work has been featured in several monographs and publications including; The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Forbes Magazine, Architectural Digest, Interview Magazine, Art Forum, Modern Painters, Flash Art and The Brooklyn Rail. He was awarded The Pollock-Krasner Foundation award in 2018 and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship Award from 2004-2009. Daniel Turner works primarily in sculpture involving the manipulation of materials, objects, and environments into tactile or atmospheric forms. These works are characterized by a specific response to site under a controlled set of processes. This approach has enabled Turner to base form on transposition, preserving a sensory link to geographical locations, cultural associations and human contact. For the current exhibition, Turner has produced three sculptures in response to the Vinnitsa Regional Psychoneurological Hospital recasting integral elements of the Ukrainian hospital into both solid and ephemeral forms. Founded in 1897, this hospital is an active medical and prophylactic institution specializing in polyclinic medical care for psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery. Through a calibrated processing of environment, the artist has identified, archived and recast one metric ton of the hospital’s steel bedding into two concentrated forms. A related process has yielded a third sculpture, whereby additional material has been distilled into a steel byproduct—burnished directly into the gallery wall. For Turner, form is a process of transformation. His choice of materials speaks to familiar, yet constrained environments, preserving the physical affects which a place gathers to itself.
Daniel Turner was born in 1983 in Portsmouth, Virginia USA. He received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006 and currently lives and works in New York NY. Turner’s work has been the subject of international exhibitions including; ‘Daniel Turner’ at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa TX; ‘2 220’, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium; ‘Die Kräfte Hinter Den Formen’, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck Austria; ‘Eclat Attraction de la Ruine’, Université’, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France; ‘(IPN)’, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers France; ‘L’expostion D’un Film’, Centre d’Art Contemporain / Foundation Arditi, Geneva Switzerland; ‘Die Kräfte Hinter Den Formen’, Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Museen Haus Esters und Haus Lange, Krefeld Germany; Particle Processed Cafeteria, König Galerie, Berlin Germany; ‘Freezer Burn’, Hauser & Wirth, New York NY; ‘you, your sun and shadow’, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; ‘PM’ Team Gallery New York NY; ‘Clear’, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles CA; ‘Four Rooms’, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; ‘Expanded Painting’, The Prague Biennale 5, Prague, Czech Republic; and ‘Modern Talking’, Muzeul de Arta Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania. Turner served as a visiting scholar at New York University from 2009-2010. Turner’s work has been featured in several monographs and publications including; The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Forbes Magazine, Architectural Digest, Interview Magazine, Art Forum, Modern Painters, Flash Art and The Brooklyn Rail. He was awarded The Pollock-Krasner Foundation award in 2018 and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship Award from 2004-2009. Daniel Turner works primarily in sculpture involving the manipulation of materials, objects, and environments into tactile or atmospheric forms. These works are characterized by a specific response to site under a controlled set of processes. This approach has enabled Turner to base form on transposition, preserving a sensory link to geographical locations, cultural associations and human contact. For the current exhibition, Turner has produced three sculptures in response to the Vinnitsa Regional Psychoneurological Hospital recasting integral elements of the Ukrainian hospital into both solid and ephemeral forms. Founded in 1897, this hospital is an active medical and prophylactic institution specializing in polyclinic medical care for psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery. Through a calibrated processing of environment, the artist has identified, archived and recast one metric ton of the hospital’s steel bedding into two concentrated forms. A related process has yielded a third sculpture, whereby additional material has been distilled into a steel byproduct—burnished directly into the gallery wall. For Turner, form is a process of transformation. His choice of materials speaks to familiar, yet constrained environments, preserving the physical affects which a place gathers to itself.