Daniel Hirsch Perlman (born 1960) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
[1] He is represented by Blum & Poe Gallery in Los Angeles, California Perlman attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Hirsch Perlman’s oeuvre spans sculpture, scripted film, stop-motion animation and photography.
His experimental, accumulative, and often time-based practice draws the viewer into his rigorous tests of visual and literal, and the limits of control.
The emblematic cat trapped in a box, and simultaneously dead and alive has been co-opted by popular and science-fiction writers from Robert Anton Wilson to Douglas Adams.