Untitled Art, Houston
10/1/2025
Solo presentation of Daniel Healey's tape transfer paintings at Untitled Art, Houston, Texas-September 19-21, 2025
Courtesy of Pietro Alexander Gallery
10/1/2025
Solo presentation of Daniel Healey's tape transfer paintings at Untitled Art, Houston, Texas-September 19-21, 2025
Courtesy of Pietro Alexander Gallery
(tape ends) at SPY Projects
7/2/2025
SPY Projects is pleased to present tape ends, a solo exhibition of new work by Daniel Healey, on view from June 20 to July 27, 2025. An opening reception will take place on Friday, June 20, from 6 to 9 PM. This marks Healey’s second solo show with the gallery.
In tape ends, Healey continues to refine his signature tape transfer technique, using Scotch tape to lift ink from printed advertisements and transfer it onto canvas. Each piece of tape removes a sliver of color—typically from home décor catalogues or similar sources—creating a distinctive, rectangular mark. The works are composed entirely from this process, with no added pigment. As a result, Healey’s palette is determined by the colors available in commercial print media, particularly those found in product backdrops.
Unlike earlier works, which occasionally referenced their sources through faint imagery—such as glimpses of lamps or furniture—these new paintings are fully abstract. They present as atmospheric color fields, structured by the fine grid of overlapping tape segments and the layered texture of the ink transfers.
The process is both improvisational and exacting. Because each tape fragment can only be used once, the act of collecting color is inseparable from the act of composing the painting. Healey transforms familiar, disposable imagery into meditative, hand-built surfaces, shaped through repetition, selection, and constraint.
In this series, he draws specifically from printed images of daytime skies—those idealized backdrops often used in advertising to evoke calm, openness, or aspiration. Reconstructed on canvas, they become rhythmic fields of tone and surface, subtly animated by the geometry of the tape.
7/2/2025
SPY Projects is pleased to present tape ends, a solo exhibition of new work by Daniel Healey, on view from June 20 to July 27, 2025. An opening reception will take place on Friday, June 20, from 6 to 9 PM. This marks Healey’s second solo show with the gallery.
In tape ends, Healey continues to refine his signature tape transfer technique, using Scotch tape to lift ink from printed advertisements and transfer it onto canvas. Each piece of tape removes a sliver of color—typically from home décor catalogues or similar sources—creating a distinctive, rectangular mark. The works are composed entirely from this process, with no added pigment. As a result, Healey’s palette is determined by the colors available in commercial print media, particularly those found in product backdrops.
Unlike earlier works, which occasionally referenced their sources through faint imagery—such as glimpses of lamps or furniture—these new paintings are fully abstract. They present as atmospheric color fields, structured by the fine grid of overlapping tape segments and the layered texture of the ink transfers.
The process is both improvisational and exacting. Because each tape fragment can only be used once, the act of collecting color is inseparable from the act of composing the painting. Healey transforms familiar, disposable imagery into meditative, hand-built surfaces, shaped through repetition, selection, and constraint.
In this series, he draws specifically from printed images of daytime skies—those idealized backdrops often used in advertising to evoke calm, openness, or aspiration. Reconstructed on canvas, they become rhythmic fields of tone and surface, subtly animated by the geometry of the tape.
ParkerArts Foundation: Family Business Newsletter. Interview (tape ends) at Spy Projects
7/1/2025
In tape ends, his second solo exhibition with SPY Projects, Los Angeles-based artist Daniel Healey invites viewers to look up, though not quite in the way they might expect. On view from June 20 through July 27, 2025, the show unveils a new body of work composed entirely of Scotch tape and fragments of printed advertisements, mostly drawn from home décor catalogues. Each piece is a patient, labor-intensive arrangement of color lifted, one sliver at a time, from images of skies, then reconstructed into abstract fields on canvas.
“It’s kind of funny thinking about why I chose skies,” Healey admits. “Why deconstruct a bunch of photographs of skies to make new skies out of them?” The question half rhetorical, half serious captures the heart of tape ends: a conceptual loop where destruction begets creation, and where images of the everyday are quietly transformed into something sublime.
7/1/2025
In tape ends, his second solo exhibition with SPY Projects, Los Angeles-based artist Daniel Healey invites viewers to look up, though not quite in the way they might expect. On view from June 20 through July 27, 2025, the show unveils a new body of work composed entirely of Scotch tape and fragments of printed advertisements, mostly drawn from home décor catalogues. Each piece is a patient, labor-intensive arrangement of color lifted, one sliver at a time, from images of skies, then reconstructed into abstract fields on canvas.
“It’s kind of funny thinking about why I chose skies,” Healey admits. “Why deconstruct a bunch of photographs of skies to make new skies out of them?” The question half rhetorical, half serious captures the heart of tape ends: a conceptual loop where destruction begets creation, and where images of the everyday are quietly transformed into something sublime.
3M Letraset at PBA Projects Review: Whitehot Magazine by India Mandelkern
6/20/2025
"You could call these Scotch tape works collage, but they have a procedural kinship to painting. (When you allow that “paint” is really just a mixture of pigment and glue, it’s hard not to think of them this way.) The catalog is the palette. The tape is the brush and the varnish. The completed works look not only painterly but also opulent and lustrous; accreted layers of tape lend the works a glossy, resin-like sheen. You have to get very close to notice their faux craquelure-like effect. Healey is an expressionist in that way. He refuses to hide his brushwork."
-India Mandelkern
6/20/2025
"You could call these Scotch tape works collage, but they have a procedural kinship to painting. (When you allow that “paint” is really just a mixture of pigment and glue, it’s hard not to think of them this way.) The catalog is the palette. The tape is the brush and the varnish. The completed works look not only painterly but also opulent and lustrous; accreted layers of tape lend the works a glossy, resin-like sheen. You have to get very close to notice their faux craquelure-like effect. Healey is an expressionist in that way. He refuses to hide his brushwork."
-India Mandelkern
Lisa Bowman's Equisite Corspe: HyperAllergic review by Matt Stromberg
5/3/2025
LOS ANGELES — During the pandemic, Lisa Bowman found solace in her mailbox. Shortly before COVID-19 lockdowns began in early 2020, the Los Angeles-based artist and curator had begun an exquisite corpse mail art project. Made famous by the Surrealists a century ago, the exquisite corpse is a collaborative exercise between three people, each of whom contributes without seeing what the others have done. Inspired by a massive exquisite corpse exhibition held at the Drawing Center in New York in 1993, Bowman began sending out sheets of paper folded into three sections, with instructions and a self-addressed stamped envelope, to friends and colleagues. Then the pandemic hit.
“It was the perfect thing to do during the lockdown,” she told Hyperallergic in a studio visit last year. “It certainly saved me in a way, because I couldn’t go see art, and then I’d get these envelopes in the mail.”
Over the next year and a half, Bowman diligently mailed out and received packages. Her exquisite corpse project grew to 70 drawings featuring contributions from over 200 artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, and curators, which she released as a book last year. The list of participants reflects Bowman’s creative circles in New York and LA, as well as their families and students, and artists she found through Instagram.
5/3/2025
LOS ANGELES — During the pandemic, Lisa Bowman found solace in her mailbox. Shortly before COVID-19 lockdowns began in early 2020, the Los Angeles-based artist and curator had begun an exquisite corpse mail art project. Made famous by the Surrealists a century ago, the exquisite corpse is a collaborative exercise between three people, each of whom contributes without seeing what the others have done. Inspired by a massive exquisite corpse exhibition held at the Drawing Center in New York in 1993, Bowman began sending out sheets of paper folded into three sections, with instructions and a self-addressed stamped envelope, to friends and colleagues. Then the pandemic hit.
“It was the perfect thing to do during the lockdown,” she told Hyperallergic in a studio visit last year. “It certainly saved me in a way, because I couldn’t go see art, and then I’d get these envelopes in the mail.”
Over the next year and a half, Bowman diligently mailed out and received packages. Her exquisite corpse project grew to 70 drawings featuring contributions from over 200 artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, and curators, which she released as a book last year. The list of participants reflects Bowman’s creative circles in New York and LA, as well as their families and students, and artists she found through Instagram.
David Brower Center
3/12/2014
Reimagining Progress: Production, Consumption and Alternative Economies
May 22 - September 4, 2014
Reimagining Progress highlights the Bay Area’s diverse points of view regarding current patterns of consumption, our consumer-based society, and alternative, more sustainable practices.
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
510.809.0900
3/12/2014
Reimagining Progress: Production, Consumption and Alternative Economies
May 22 - September 4, 2014
Reimagining Progress highlights the Bay Area’s diverse points of view regarding current patterns of consumption, our consumer-based society, and alternative, more sustainable practices.
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
510.809.0900
Sorry Entertainer, McLoughlin Gallery, S.F.
12/17/2013
The McLoughlin Gallery is pleased to present Sorry Entertainer, a solo exhibition of Oakland based artist Daniel Healey.
On view January 9 – February 15, 2014
Opening January 9th 5pm-9pm
The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is located at the 49 Geary Street, Suite 200 in San Francisco. For more information, please call 415-986-4799 or visit www.mgart.com
12/17/2013
The McLoughlin Gallery is pleased to present Sorry Entertainer, a solo exhibition of Oakland based artist Daniel Healey.
On view January 9 – February 15, 2014
Opening January 9th 5pm-9pm
The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is located at the 49 Geary Street, Suite 200 in San Francisco. For more information, please call 415-986-4799 or visit www.mgart.com