Dan Colen (b. 1973)

“I’m trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low. People have often thought I was fucking with them when really I was just trying to share that sentiment... It’s about tapping into a material’s power and figuring out what it wants to do. The painting has changed over time. The colours have become rotten and pungent, more complex. It’s become more interesting” (D. Colen, quoted in E. Helmore, ‘Dan Colen: How the bad boy of New York art discovered the good,’ The Guardian, 9 May 2014).