About
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Daniel Allen Cohen is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist. He creates conceptual art with popular culture references that categorize our society’s values, desires, needs, and vices, which at times intertwine.
As a self-taught artist, he dabbled in a variety of media including photography and graphic design. By 2015, he began the series This is Addictive, which precisely categorized our society’s addictive tendencies into a periodic element format supplemented by a witty “nutritional” information label. In 2018, the artist revived Feeny’s Photo, his grandparents’ photo lab from the 90’s. Under this label, Cohen seeks to create a collaborative contemporary art space that connects past nostalgic traditions of photography with new media, including sculptural and digital works. Cohen’s work has been featured in exhibitions and art fairs throughout the country and internationally. His artwork is collected by numerous private collections including, the Getty Family Private Collection and the Gigi Hadid Private Collection. |
Chroma
Chroma is an immersion in color.
The monochromatic video installation, by Daniel Allen Cohen, taps into our deeper psychological connections with each hue. Blue, Green, Purple, and Yellow display, in vivid detail, their omnipresence in our lives and the innate positive emotions we associate with a color: Blue fosters relaxation and a cool calmness, instilling security and confidence; Green inspires rejuvenation reminiscent of growth, prosperity, and abundance; Purple harbors a spiritual, otherworldly-quality stimulating creativity and imagination; and Yellow sparks cheerful optimism that can cultivate enlightenment.
Each video contains a montage of newly-created and stock footage that captures the essence of how each color permeates our lives and psyche. By including scenes from stock videos, Cohen also recalls a similar practice that Pop artists used with found-objects in their collaged works. Many of these clips are sublime scenes like slow-dripping golden honey cascading into ribbons, or soaring over the lush forest canopy. In his newly-created scenes, some are more abstract with rich-violet pigment diluting in water, while others highlight our routines of filling grocery carts with an abundance of green-hued products. There are also numerous cameos of nostalgic items like retro rotary telephones, and spinning vinyl records. Each scene is stitched together through gentle transitions paced to an original score composed by Zach Norman. The result is a meditative work that enables the viewer to fully feel the emotional depth of each hue.
The five NFT videos are played on a hi-definition monitor encased in a hand-painted acrylic frame, resembling the classic Kodachrome slides. By incorporating this popular photography reference of the past, Cohen secures each digital work to a permanent vessel in our physical space— binding the old to the new.
When experienced as an installation, the NFTs and Kodachrome-inspired frame embrace the simplicity and energy of color, while cultivating a visceral connection between work and viewer.
The monochromatic video installation, by Daniel Allen Cohen, taps into our deeper psychological connections with each hue. Blue, Green, Purple, and Yellow display, in vivid detail, their omnipresence in our lives and the innate positive emotions we associate with a color: Blue fosters relaxation and a cool calmness, instilling security and confidence; Green inspires rejuvenation reminiscent of growth, prosperity, and abundance; Purple harbors a spiritual, otherworldly-quality stimulating creativity and imagination; and Yellow sparks cheerful optimism that can cultivate enlightenment.
Each video contains a montage of newly-created and stock footage that captures the essence of how each color permeates our lives and psyche. By including scenes from stock videos, Cohen also recalls a similar practice that Pop artists used with found-objects in their collaged works. Many of these clips are sublime scenes like slow-dripping golden honey cascading into ribbons, or soaring over the lush forest canopy. In his newly-created scenes, some are more abstract with rich-violet pigment diluting in water, while others highlight our routines of filling grocery carts with an abundance of green-hued products. There are also numerous cameos of nostalgic items like retro rotary telephones, and spinning vinyl records. Each scene is stitched together through gentle transitions paced to an original score composed by Zach Norman. The result is a meditative work that enables the viewer to fully feel the emotional depth of each hue.
The five NFT videos are played on a hi-definition monitor encased in a hand-painted acrylic frame, resembling the classic Kodachrome slides. By incorporating this popular photography reference of the past, Cohen secures each digital work to a permanent vessel in our physical space— binding the old to the new.
When experienced as an installation, the NFTs and Kodachrome-inspired frame embrace the simplicity and energy of color, while cultivating a visceral connection between work and viewer.