Daniel Hirsch Perlman (born 1960) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in

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, California. He is a professor of sculpture at

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. His work has been exhibited at the

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, the

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, and P.S.1 in New York. In 2010, Perlman's work was featured in the exhibition ''Stop. Move.'' at

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Gallery in Los Angeles. He is represented by Blum & Poe Gallery in Los Angeles, California

Education

Perlman attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Work

Hirsch Perlman’s oeuvre spans sculpture, scripted film, stop-motion animation and photography. His experimental, accumulative, and often time-based practice draws the viewer into his rigorous tests of visual and literal, and the limits of control. He implements simple materials and clichés, reworked to produce poignant and unexpected results. His large silk-screen prints of cat drawings entitled Schrödinger Cats are named for the Austrian physicist’s experiment to illustrate the paradox of quantum mechanics and the contingencies of physical context. The emblematic cat trapped in a box, and simultaneously dead and alive has been co-opted by popular and science-fiction writers from Robert Anton Wilson to Douglas Adams. In the early 1990s, Perlman produced a series of works around the theme of evidence, several of which were included in the 1992 exhibition Exhibit A, held at the

Serpentine Gallery The Serpentine Galleries are two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens, Westminster, Greater London. Recently rebranded to just Serpentine, the organisation is split across Serpentine South, previously known as the Serpentine Galler ...

, in London.

Recent solo exhibitions

2009 Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan 2007 ''ergo despero'', Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, Spain The Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Drammens Museum, Drammens, Norway Saint-Gaudens Memorial Picture Gallery, Cornish, NH 2005 Gimpel Fils, London, UK Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan Drammens Museum, Drammen, Norway 2004 Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

References

External links

Official website
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