Dan Climan: Talking Fondly

Good Mother Gallery is pleased to present Talking Fondly, a solo exhibition by Dan Climan. This exhibition offers a tender meditation on memory, conversation, and the quietly cinematic moments embedded in everyday life. Through a series of atmospheric paintings, Climan draws viewers into a world where stories are only partially told, images are cropped just before resolution, and nostalgia lingers like the final lines of a beloved film.

Arranged chronologically from dawn, twilight, to the depths of midnight, looping again toward sunrise, the works mirror the rhythm of a single day, echoing the passage of time and the cyclical nature of reflection. Saturated tones drawn from 1970s and 80s cinema infuse the canvases with warmth and longing, conjuring atmospheres that feel both personal and universal.

Throughout the exhibition, recurring motifs such as cars, suburban flags, wilting flowers, and anonymous silhouettes reappear like fragments of remembered stories. Climan’s visual language is poetic and suggestive, capturing the essence of conversations and memories that fade, distort, or take on new meaning with time. In this way, Talking Fondly becomes a kind of visual diary: intimate, elliptical, and deliberately unresolved.

At its core, Talking Fondly reflects a transition from pandemic era escapism to a more grounded yet equally surreal realism, rooted in the textures of suburban life and the imagery of contemporary visual culture. Climan blurs the line between cinematic memory and lived experience, transforming the banal into the quietly profound.