Jupiter is pleased to present The Last Generation, the first solo exhibition in Florida by Brooklyn-based artist Dan Flanagan and his debut with the gallery. Featuring seven new, never-before-seen paintings, the exhibition continues Flanagan’s practice of expressive mark-making that simultaneously draws upon innate creative impulses, art historical precedents—specifically Abstract Expressionism—and the gritty hallmarks of the graffitied city he calls home.
The Last Generation unfolds across the gallery as a visual poem, trading in allusion and ambiguity the paintings evade any linear narrative while conjuring powerful resonances that encourage existential meditation on questions of life and death, hope and faith, tragedy and joy—shared spiritual struggles that define the human condition. As embodiments of these binaries, each painting serves as a sort of personage, which in tandem with one another could be construed as something like a generation.
About the Artist
Dan Flanagan (b. 1983, Madison, Wisconsin) studied at the New York Studio School prior to earning his BFA from Kansas City Art Institute in 2008. His work has been exhibited at Harper’s, New York (2021); EXPO Chicago, (2021); Mulherin Toronto, Canada (2019); BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA (2019 and 2017); and Marvin Gardens, Ridgewood, NY (2018). Flanagan is represented by Harper’s; he currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.