About
Daniel Herr is a Los Angeles based artist. The son of a landscape painter, Herr attended UC Davis where he studied with Wayne Thiebaud and David Hollowell. After earning an MFA from Boston University, Herr spent a decade and a half living and working in New York. He is a self-described "old-school painter," with influence from Abstract Expressionism, the Bay Area Figurative movement, and DADA. His work has been shown at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York; Armature Projects, New York; Safe Gallery (now EUROPA), New York; Shrine, New York; O'Flaherty's, New York; the Java Project, Brooklyn, NY; Greenhouse Gallery, Alva, OK; LAST Projects, Los Angeles; Shallow Bath, Los Angeles, CA; and Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, among others. Herr speaks of painting as a record of experience, likening it to a short story, poem, or photograph - something which is personal but exists within the conventions of an historical form. His work has been featured or reviewed in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, ARTnews, Artnet Magazine, ArtMaze, Office Magazine, and Artcritical.