DITCH FISH Daniel Newman

DITCH FISH
Daniel Newman

Insert Press is pleased to present DITCH FISH, the third solo exhibition with General Projects by Los Angeles-based artist Daniel Newman.

In DITCH FISH, Newman extends his fascination with fragmented imagery and pattern disruption into a new series of paintings that delve into liminal spaces where the urban and aquatic converge in the detritus and dreams of the city’s waterways.

Newman’s 2020 exhibition 52 PICKUP at General Projects offered a meditation on the exploded logic of collection, transforming the overlooked into the extraordinary. In Ditch Fish this alchemical process continues, drifting further into visual sediment—where images mutate across processes of automation, recollection, and painterly delay. The works exude a tension between the familiar and scrambled. Things are almost there: a tailfin, a cul-de-sac, a poodle, a warning. The fish that surface here also feel like perfect inhabitants of the nuclear-like river landscapes introduced in Newman’s recent exhibition of DOTONBORI PAINTINGS at Holiday Clinic.

Following exhibitions like 52 PICKUP and AEON ID VIEWS, DITCH FISH continues Newman’s exploration of chance, refusal, and the architecture of miscommunication. DITCH FISH extends the artist’s ongoing interest in residual aesthetics: what slips through systems of representation, and what washes up afterward.

Daniel Newman was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1978. He graduated from The Cooper Union in 2002 where he studied with Vito Acconci, Jonas Mekas, and Hans Haacke. His artwork takes on many forms including drawing, collage, painting, audio, video, and printmaking and has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. He is also a prolific bookmaker and in 2010 was shortlisted for the Art Book of the Moment Award by Art Gallery of York University in Toronto, Canada. He recently had his first solo museum exhibition at The Jule Collins Smith Museum at Auburn University.