Dan Lucal

Art

: “Car” 2018, wood, casters, ultravelvet, concrete, thread, screws. 48″ x 60″ x 24″ 225lbs

: “Car” and “Friend”

: “Friend” 2018, wood, carpet pad, curtain, casters, 5′ x 2′ x 16″

: “Friend” Detail

: “Triple Tape Dispenser”, 2018, plywood, metal. 11″ x 11″ x 11″ Fits three 1″ wide 3″ core tape rolls.

: “Shape Detector” 2017, wood. 20″x 16″ x12″

: “Shape Detector” In another position. (The pins slide to detect shapes.)

: “Contour Gauge” 2017, wood, the pins slide to gauge contours. 31″ x 12″ x 5″

: “Regular Guy” 2017, Digital photo. Self portrait photo in an upside-down room I built.

: “Some tape” 2018, 4×5 photograph. 5, 1000 yard rolls of clear packing tape. I love tape. I love rolls. This is 5000 yards, nearly 3 miles!

: “Plexi pink and yellow” 2018, This is a 4×5 photograph I took with a flash bounced off coloraid paper behind the plexi stack.

: “Plexi-Stack 1” 2018, plexiglass. This is plexiglass I laser cut at school. I love the way light goes through the edges of plexiglass.

: “Stages” 2017. Coloraid paper. This is a transparency study I made for color theory class, and got framed.

: “For Mother” 2017. Coloraid paper. Another transparency study, this frame I made myself, and sent as a gift to my mother.

: “Poker Champ” 2018, Digital photo

: “Employee of the Month” 2018, Digital photo

: “Portrait of the Artist’s Mother Wearing a Necklace” 2013. Digital photo

: “Gentle Union” 2015. VCT (the vinyl version of a linoleum tile) on plywood, cut with a router and an inlay kit. 18″ x 24″ x 2″

: “Island” 2015. VCT on plywood, 18″ x 12″ x 2″

: “Turt” 2015. VCT on plywood, 24″ x “20 x 1”

: “Partnership” 2015. VCT on plywood, 24″ x 24″

: “Small Hill Along 90″ 2016. VCT on plywood 18″ x 18”

: “Grippers” 2014. Silicone Ikea oven mitts, VCT on plywood, metal hardware. 24″ x 24″ x 6″ I donated this to a benefit auction but no one bought it. :/

: “Hotdogs” 2016. I made large ceramic hot dogs and put them in cinder blocks cosy with yellow marbles. Do you know how big a cinder block is?

: I passed this thing on one of my jogging routes for a few years and finally decided to carry it home. Beloved inspirational object. Digital photo, 2015

: “Softstepper” 2016, The green stuff is a foam-like sub-floor-padding material. The white part is a globe from a light fixture. I snuck this one into the inventory of a store where I worked because it broke my heart to throw it out, who has room for these things? Hopefully someone bought it.

: “Evening of Luxury” 2015, foam, plastic, spring clamp,

: “Evening of Luxury” Installation view in a pile of junk near my studio.

: This is a DIY scooter cover I saw on the street. One of those gym-class parachutes?

: “Ultra-Pro” 2017. Plywood, TP. 24″ x 16″ x 8″ Five roll capacity. For the Eureka Outhouse Gallery show, June 2017

: “Regular” 2017. Plywood, TP. 36″ x 11″ x 11″ Single roll capacity with built in storage for auxiliary rolls and reading material.

: “Softness and Strength” 2017. Plywood, TP. 16″ x 12″ x 10″ Four roll capacity.

: “Irregular” 2017. Plywood, TP. 18″ x 18″ x 18″ Three roll capacity.

: A portrait of me by Tei Blow

: Installation view of 2015 show “Expensive Art” at Vandeavors gallery

: Installation view of 2015 show “Expensive Art” at Vandeavors gallery, with dog, photo by Alexander Deschamps

: “Cactus in Perlite” 2015. Digital photo. In the background is a big piece of styrofoam that came in a huge box holding a chandelier.

: “Bad Egg #3” 2013. Digital photograph. I soaked an egg in vinegar until the shell dissolved, and put it in this chipped green light fixture.

: “Oblique” 2013. Digital photo. A blue lightbulb in a roll of shrink wrap. There’s another oddly shaped roll of packing tape peeking out.

: “Scotch” 2013. Digital photo. I found out how to make this happen in my freezer with some fancy Scotch.

: “4 rolls” 2013. Digital photo.

: “Hot Item” 2015. Particle board, strapping tape, plywood. 30″ x 30″ x 3″

: “Hot Item” Currently (as of 6/18) on view behind the office supplies in the compost office at Big Reuse Brooklyn…

: “Passion” 2014. Digital photograph.

: “Powdered Donuts” 2014, toilet paper on a fine plinth. Made for the show “All that and a bag of chips” at Dead Space Gallery. 2′ x 4′ x 1′

: “Powdered Donuts” Detail

: “Blocks” 2015. Concrete blocks in an enclosed plinth.

: “Spread” 2013. Digital photo. Of plexiglass.

: “Wardrobe Malfunction” 2013. Digital photograph.

: “Expensive Shape #1” 2013. Digital photo. This is a plastic wheel that holds the roll of foil or insulated paper or plastic that they wrap your sandwich in at the deli.

: “Plenty” 2016. Plaster, glow in the dark sticks. I made a bunch of these.

: “Ice ring with cloth” 2013. Digital photo.

: “Seaweed Snack” 2013. Digital photo.

: If you don’t love me at my…

: …You don’t deserve me at my… terracotta pots I made on the wheel, 2017.

: “Paper from Egg Sacks” 2013. Digital photo.

: “Squid Costume” My first big sewing project, 2015, upholstery vinyl.

: Highly technical design sketch for squid costume

: “Pipe from the street, I put it back” 2013. Digital photo.

: “Pavers” 2013. Digital photo.

: “Strapping Tape” 2013. Digital photo.

: “Cave dwelling” 2016. Glazed stoneware.

: “Cave Dwelling 2” 2016. Glazed stoneware.

: Ask me about my “untitled” work of art. 2014. Digital photo.

: “Special Egg” 2013. Digital photo. Of de-cored packing tape.

: “Slider” 2014. Digital photo. Of wood veneer edge tape.

: “Head” 2013. Digital photo. Of old foam insulation tape.

: “Peeker” 2014. Digital photo. Of flagging tape.

: “Dish” 2015. Paper. 5″ x 10″ x 10″

: “Dish 2″ 2015. Paper. 5″ x 20″ x 30”

: WIP: This stuff is a sub-flooring material called Schluter Ditra, for tile work. It comes in 4′ wide rolls. I cut it down to strips 3/4 inch wide and wound it around and around to make this large roll.

: “One good turn deserves another” 2016. OSB, Schluter Ditra, brass screen, screws, a ton of glue. 8′ x 8′ x 2″ This got purchased by a guy I never met. I don’t know what he did with it. If you have seen it, please let me know.

: “Several rolls” 2013. TP. Installation view, my bathroom, Queens.

: TP in progress

: Here is the big roll in progress, with a small tuft of human hair, In my studio in 2015…

: Here is the large tp roll installed at Launchpad gallery in 2014.

: “Big Roll” 2015. Toilet Paper on plywood. 48″ x 48″ x 5″ …This is Big Roll after it spent a night outside in the rain. I made it by rolling about 100 rolls together. Maybe someday I’ll upload a video of how I did that. The process involved a modified record player and a custom feeder with a 4 roll capacity.

: Here is a smaller roll I made for my parents.

: TP in a sling.

: Soft stepper glowing, distant window.

: Softstepper and friend

: Another softstepper

: 48″ disc of insulation foam I made in 2015 for a show at Gowanus Ballroom… this one is in a state of decay at the moment.

: This is big 12′ x 12′ painting I did on the floor of my studio. It is still there, but there are lockers and a wall got built across the middle of it.

: Here is another portrait of me in the upside down room.

: This is a miniature gallery I made and put one of my pet mantises in, in 2013.

: Street inspo

: Street inspo

: Signage for 2015 Gowanus Open Studios.

: “Portrait of the Artist’s Mother wearing a necklace” installed in the Kimball/Carrig collection

: My video “Noodle World Order” on view at fresh windows gallery in the Hope Dreams show 2016

: I was moving some theater flats in Sunset Park Brooklyn and the light was coming in the window so beautifully, I love this picture.

: This is a mouth I made for my “Oral Hygiene” video on my Dansplains youtube channel, 2017. Please like and subscribe.

: This is a plywood experiment I made at Matt Jeffs studio in PA. Thanks Matt!

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