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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[@BotondBokor]

Those data sheets 😍

[@dizzydean2023]

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!

[@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.

[@APOSTA-pz7vs]

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

[@05connoraddison]

😍

[@1hayes1]

Just not interesting.