Collection: DANIEL COHEN
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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 “drug label” 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.
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Daniel Allen Cohen — Artist Statement 2021
For me, life is about finding balance, moderation and originality, while navigating through our consumer-driven world. I’m interested in how we, as human beings, are driven by our needs and desires, and how our culture cleverly manipulates and blurs the lines between them. In my work, I tend to focus on concepts of fame, addiction, drugs, wealth and life-cycles of consumer items. Since many of these topics can be perceived as taboo or polarizing, my aim is always to alleviate the pressure on the subject matter and to make it approachable, light-hearted and sometimes just funny. I prefer to stay right in the middle of the road, and walk that tightrope between what’s perceived as “good” or “bad”— it’s all simply a reflection of who we are as a culture.
