The Artist’s Statement

My work attempts to communicate a type of logic, or organization, through the fabrication and arrangement of materials. The process begins with a sketch, or a word, or a concept, and uses the collection and exploration of found objects to uncover the potential building blocks of a future form. I consider elements of space and scale and start to visualize a final structure. The work I try to execute examines the experience of existing in the built world, by reimagining our relationship with the materials that define it.

The Artist’s Bio

Dan Coughlin, b. 1985, is a visual artist from Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated with a BA in Economics from Villanova University in 2007. He subsequently studied at Pratt Institute, graduating with an M. Arch degree in 2012. In 2017 he began pursuing an interest in sculpture while continuing to work as an architect. In 2018-2019 he apprenticed for Cambridge sculptor Peter DeCamp Haines, where he was introduced to the lost-wax bronze casting process. In 2021 he attended a residency at the Berlin Art Institute in Berlin, Germany. He currently lives and works in Somerville, MA.