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Dané is a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary artist whose practice investigates transformation as the fundamental condition of contemporary experience. Working across painting, sculpture, and works on paper, he examines how perception, desire, and identity are continually reorganized through time.

Rooted in the belief that perception is never neutral, the work considers how visual, cultural, technological, social, material, and environmental systems shape the ways individuals see and construct themselves. The individual is understood not as fixed or singular, but as a continually changing configuration formed through accumulated experience and interaction with the world.

Painting functions as a central site of investigation. Surfaces accumulate, absorb, and reveal through successive processes of application and removal, allowing material to retain traces of what has come before while continually becoming something else. Works on paper extend this inquiry through fragments drawn from earlier paintings and retinal imagery, bringing perception, memory, and material history into relation. Sculpture approaches transformation spatially, with forms that suggest growth, emergence, and states of becoming.

Rather than representing transformation as a subject, Dané’s practice creates material and perceptual conditions through which transformation becomes perceptible.