Dan Climan
Dan Climan (b. 1987, Montréal) received his BFA from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada. He currently lives and works in Montréal, Canada.
The work of painter Dan Climan depicts everyday scenes with an underlying uncanniness, exploring the tension between the familiar and the unknown. Both stylistically and thematically, Climan’s oeuvre draws from mid-century cinema, photography, and advertising. His paintings invoke the era’s non-digital simplicity with flat, clean-edged forms and wide-open compositions; their sparse canvases are populated with common objects and nostalgic figures — radiators, barns, dogs — that feel eerily out-of-place. Like a frame from an old film or a snapshot taken from a car window, Climan’s works capture fleeting moments-in-time: emotive, unresolved narratives that ask the viewer to draw their own conclusions.
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Dan Climan: Talking Fondly
LOS ANGELES 5 - 26 Apr 2025Good Mother Gallery is pleased to present Talking Fondly , a solo exhibition by Dan Climan. This exhibition offers a tender meditation on memory, conversation, and the quietly cinematic moments...Read more -
Rendezvous : Group Exhibition
LOS ANGELES 14 Sep - 12 Oct 2024Good Mother Gallery is delighted to mark a new chapter with the opening of our latest Los Angeles location in West Adams and an inaugural group exhibition titled ' Rendezvous...Read more
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Dan Climan • Talking Fondly
June 11, 2025This April, Good Mother Gallery proudly hosted Talking Fondly , a solo exhibition by celebrated Montréal-based artist Dan Climan. The exhibit was on show at...Read more -
New LA Location • Rendezvous Group Show Opening
September 17, 2024Big thank you to everyone who made it out to the opening of our new Los Angeles gallery space in West Adams! We kicked off...Read more