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Dan Perfect (born 1965) is an artist based in London.

Dan Perfect’s paintings are multi-layered depictions of disparate imagery which make reference to numerous pieces of visual culture, past and present. Perfect’s work combines painterly elements with illustration to create a range of visual information. His work evolves from drawings on paper – “automatic drawings” whereby the drawer does not consciously decide how to proceed – from which he extracts suitable motifs to hone for his canvasses. His chosen imagery is refined, repeated and adjusted whilst being traced into the composition of the final painting. Perfect has a background in printmaking which accounts for his use of layers to build up a complete painting – each element of the work is added separately and distinctly resulting in the effect of a collage. Perfect’s paintings show a mixture of abstract colour, shape and gesture alongside heavily defined figurative elements, and recurring painted characters which crop up again and again. The visual references within Perfect’s pictures range from 1930s Surrealism and Art Deco to graffiti and the general experience of the modern world.

He has exhibited at galleries and museums such as Karsten Schubert in London, Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York and the ICA, London, the CCA, Glasgow and Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, as part of the 2002 Beck’s Futures Prize.