Dane Palmieri is an American born visual artist living and working between Buenos Aires, Argentina and the United States.

His practice is centered around the emotional mining of sentiment and memory. By sifting through the layers of lived life he carefully interprets and brings to surface newly created physical realities, taking shape in the form of sculptures, installations, and assemblages.

Palmieri utilizes the vestiges of his past as emotional triggers in order to regenerate these once symbols of existence into states of re-existence. Dealing with themes that touch upon loss, protection, preservation, and survival, he reduces these experiences down to their most tangible form, and in doing so, opens up emotionally salient pathways which allow for him to further understand what consequences they may hold.

He employs a diverse selection of mediums ranging from the found, artistic, heirloom, and decorative, to the commercially available to evoke these visceral reactions. It is the melding of these elements with techniques first acquired during his youth, such as woodworking, photography, textile practices, and casting processes that allow these mnemonic qualities to permeate the work.

Palmieri is currently exploring a more methodological approach to his practice by revisiting and categorizing his work. He is investigating how to dissect and integrate his own archive of “mundane” personal materials into a larger narrative in order to lay the groundwork for future sculptural works based on this research.