Daniel Wolfe

I focus on light: the way that light permeates and shapes our world, and how our practices in that world are in turn suffused with light. As a Brooklyn native, I choose abstract forms that resemble the urban landscape of my youth.

I was born in 1973 in New York City and grew up in a small apartment in Manhattan, walls covered with oriental rugs. My art today reflects the patterns of these rugs and our cramped apartment as well as my early exposure to the symbolism of Klee and scale of Rothko.

I now often begin with painting on canvas but usually cut those paintings up into smaller pieces and mount them on movable materials. This way I extend the creative process to the viewer via mosaics and collages that are re-configurable over time.

In 2004, while struggling to create large-format canvases in a cramped New York City apartment, I discovered the potential of “bits”; works that could be worked in discreet pieces and assembled later.  Bits evolved into pieces comprised of hundreds of temporarily affixed miniature prints and paintings, which the viewer is able to interact with.

Today I live and work in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. In my studio I paint on raw canvas, cut up and reconfigure the canvases, and also work with...

I attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan and later State University of New York and graduated in 1995 with a major in Studio Art. I also studied Art History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

2017 Solo exhibit in Sag Harbor, NY at the Center for Jewish Life

2015 installation at the CHYE Entrepreneurs Workspace in Brooklyn

April 2014 Creative Soul group show in Brooklyn, NY

Solo exhibit at Hadas Gallery - Brooklyn, NY November 2013