Daniel Hauben – Emergence – Exhibition Open Hours

An expansive exhibition featuring the acclaimed artist’s newest and largest oil paintings.

This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience the artist’s monumental cityscapes, sculpted oil reliefs, and landscapes both real and imagined. Featured among these works are several recent pieces, including the 21-foot Reflecting on the Familiar and the 9-foot centerpiece painting Emergence.

Hauben is widely recognized as one of the Bronx’s most versatile and prolific painters. Working primarily in oil and pastel, he has spent more than five decades documenting the landscape and unique character of the borough he calls home. He has also traveled widely, painting wherever he goes. When travel ceased during the pandemic, Hauben began painting Emergence, which he describes as “a 6-year odyssey into the realm of the imagination.”

Visitors to the exhibition will have the opportunity to engage more deeply with Hauben’s work during a special event on Sunday, May 24 at 1 PM, which will feature a time-lapse video
presentation of the evolution of Emergence, along with an artist talk and guided gallery tour. On Sunday, June 21, KHS will host a fundraising event, during which Hauben will sell prints of his work and the organization From The Bronx will offer a wide variety of Bronx-themed merchandise for sale. A portion of the proceeds will benefit KHS and its programs.

Daniel Hauben was born and raised in the Bronx, and is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts. He has had over thirty national and international solo exhibitions, including at the Bronx Museum and the American Embassy in Berlin. His MTA Arts for Transit commission The EL was acknowledged in 2008 by Americans for the Arts as one of forty notable works of public art nationwide. In 2012 Hauben completed a commission of 22 paintings for the Bronx Community College Library, the largest public art commission in the Bronx in 70 years. His lifelong artistic focus has been the urban landscape, the natural landscape and, more recently, the landscape of his imagination. His work is in the collections of the Bronx Museum, Museum of the City of New York, New-York Historical Society, Library of Congress, and New York Public Library.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development in partnership
with the City Council. The Kingsbridge Historical Society’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New
York State Legislature.