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Dan Arps

Dan Arps is an Auckland based sculptor, painter and installation artist. His works explore an interest in architecture, public space, nomadic structures, and modernist traditions of abstraction, and respond to themes of alienation, the everyday, the urban environment and contemporary subjectivity.

Arps has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and Australia, including solo exhibitions Nested Cells at Michael Lett, Auckland (2017) and Overproof Recombinants at Robert Heald Gallery Wellington (2019) and group exhibitions Necessary Distraction at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2015) and Abject Failures at Hastings City Art Gallery (2018).