Dan Gottsegen

Dan Gottsegen is a painter who lives and works in rural Vermont. His work, praised by reviewers as "poignant", "meditative", "emotionally powerful", and "haunting". His work has long been based on his active engagement with the natural environment. It is influenced by week or longer, completely solitary hikes in the high Sierra and other wild places, where he traveled miles off marked trails, camping and painting alone, often above ten-thousand feet, and his ongoing wilderness wanderings and meditations.

His recent work is influenced by his return to the natural landscape of the Northeast after over twenty years in San Francisco Bay Area. In this work, he often derives images by "capturing" bits from video that he shoots. This allows him to find compositions and qualities that might not be seen readily pre-visualizing, the accidental composition. In the "Die Wanderungen" series he combines and overlaps images, often improvisatorially. Said one prominent curator, "Gottsegen develops a composition that allows for combining and compressing different moments, in the way that the mind wanders when walking in the woods."

The act of painting is for Gottsegen much like the wandering and seeking he has done in the natural wor...

California College of the Arts, Oakland & San Francisco, CA. MFA, 1983
Brown University, BA in Art, 1980

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2013 Westbranch Gallery, Stowe, VT
2012 Charleston Heights Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2012 Great River Gallery, Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids. MN
2011 Firehouse Gallery, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA
2010 Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, VT
2008 Burlington International Airport, Burlington, VT
2008 Circle 57: A One Day Salon Exhibit And Jazz Concert featuring Jazz Duo: Leslie Pintchik (piano) &Scott Hardy (bass), Eri Yamamoto Studio, New York, NY
2008 Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
2007 The Feick Art Center, Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT
2006 Karpeles Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
2006 Spotlight Gallery, Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, VT
2006 Sylvia White Contemporary Artists, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Perkins Gallery, Striar Jewish Community Center, Stoughton, MA
2005 Parker Gallery, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
2002 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Napa, CA
1994 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 California College of The Arts, Print Studio, Oakland, CA
1991 San Francisco Museum...