Daniel Brush
Red Breathing
128 pages
214 mm x 320 mm Portrait
117 colour plates
Hardcover
Cased and signed limited edition of 50
Steidl / Miles
'In the age of celebrity, anonymity acquires power. In the age of speed, slowness.
In the age of the work of art in digital reproduction, the unique object,
the hand-made inscription, the line drawn by hand that is responsive to the rhythm of breathing,
the pulse of ink flowing from the calligrapher's brush onto paper, or the live tremor
of the inscriber's chisel making delicate marks on steel.'
Hugh Haughton
Daniel Brush is a reclusive artist whose works embody a rigorous personal aesthetic marked
by its intellect and mastery of techniques and the science of materials. His tablets and
wall sculptures in blued steel, stainless steel and pure gold are hand engraved with thousands
of rhythmic lines. They are visual poems that engage the ambient light and record the passage of time.
His large-scale canvases and drawings—inspired by the expressive, disciplined gestures of the Noh
theatre—integrate the artist's understanding of Asian thought with modernist painting.
The subject of seven museum exhibitions, his career includes international painting shows and a place
in public, private and royal collections. His idiosyncratic work embodies a deeply contemplative voice in American art.
'Red Breathing' represents the artist's thirteen-year engagement with the 'woman plays', one of the five
categories of Noh theatre, resulting in 117 large-scale drawings. The book includes all drawings in sequence.
