dan Waller

(b.Santa Cruz, California)





dan Waller spent much of his adulthood working as a building superintendent in New York City while making art in relative anonymity. His pieces have a reliquary like form, using repurposed materials to create delicately structured yet humble objects with powerful presence. dan's pieces often include detritus pulled from New York City streets or trash from buildings for which he was caretaker. Rusted window screens, found fabric, worn book covers, thorns, steel shavings all layer to create objects with a tactile, anachronistic vernacular.