Photography by Jojo Korsh.
“Suburbia is a space of theater in my mind,” muses Dan Herschlein from their Los Angeles studio. “You walk down a street at night, and all the streetlights look like stage lights.”
The artist, who grew up in Bayville—a 1.5 square-mile “time warp of a town” on Long Island’s North Shore—is skilled at capturing a sense of yearning and ambient unease, and the sterile artifice of suburban life has proven particularly fruitful subject matter. They grew up working on a clam-digging boat with their dad, who also built furniture. His influence “has really informed the way that I make art,” Herschlein observes. “It’s important to me that the thing is made by my hands. Anyone can relate to a thing that’s made by somebody’s hands.”