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