Franklin Parrasch Gallery is pleased to announce Daniel Turner, an eponymous exhibition of new works by the artist.

Three bays reminiscent of agricultural feeders or laboratory tables are positioned in the gallery. The dimensions have been scaled-down, stripping the units of any logical or domestic potential. We are instead presented with objects that recall industrialized manufacture: kitchen counters resembling troughs are now corporeally-scaled, far from announcing their utility. Positioned atop one unit and submerged/dissolving in another’s lies a set of refrigerator handles, severed from any discernible function.

Central to Turner’s work is the synthesis of ideas through a stark economy of means – the breaking down of materials, and of function from form. Turner has shaped an environment which sustainedly contains ambiguous scenarios within itself. These environments seem to suggest a precarious situation which they never actually realize.