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Tinsquo's curatorial project, Adjacent To Life, presents “Just Happy to Paint My Own Paintings” by Dane Hagen.
Painter Dane Hagen’s work verifies that empathic inquiry into one’s immediate orbit offers a point of entry to the universal.
Born of the deceptively simple desire to share the pleasure of oil paint’s capacity to convey a likeness, Hagen’s work chronicles the friends, bandmates, spaces and objects that populate his intimate domain.
The paintings are created with the intent that they might enter into and inhabit this sanctum as companions to the people and objects they depict. In doing so, Hagen’s paintings enact the idea that seeing and being seen is a practice of hospitality that fosters community, expanding the realm of the known.
“Just Happy to Paint My Own Paintings” is on view through August 13 at the Adjacent to Life gallery housed in Ninth Street Espresso (341 E. 10th Street at Ave B, New York City).
