"tiger tiger, truck on fire " ::: 48 " x 36" ::: June 2009

The guys in this truck told me they only wanted directions to Walmart. When I approached the car, they began shooting at me! "Liar Liar, pants on fire", is what I said, and ran away really fast. Dude's in trucks scare me.

WHERE YOU CAN SEE MY ART NOW!!!

This week - "I've got Moxi" - SOLO show at Moxi Gallery - 1980 Union St. Suite 8. (Union and Buchanan) May 4th thru June 29th. Opening reception May 7th.

Ongoing- "vintage variety " - SOLO show at Villains - 1672 Haight St @ Cole. Come check out over 20 new pieces all availible for sale!

Ongoing - "peeps" - Given - 575 Castro street, near 19th. This place sells really cool shit at great prices and they feature 3 or 4 local SF artists at a time! Come check out pieces from my all new series!

Ongoing - "chow bella " - SOLO show at Chow - 215 Church St, San Francisco , CA. Now thru the end of July.

ARTIST STATEMENT :::

San Francisco artist danyol was born in 1970 in Orange County, California just a stone’s throw away from Disneyland. Growing up he nourished himself on a steady diet of pop art, cubism, and sarcasm. danyol’s use of his own life and surroundings combine to form a dizzying combination of colors, patterns, and textures. These are then masked out by definitive figures and shapes, somehow bringing some definition to his chaos. While bright and smile inducing on initial viewing, look closely at the found objects collaged in the background; they leave hints as to the deeper meaning of the painting. Look at it from one angle and it is seemingly straight forward, but look from another angle in different lighting, and the painting becomes much more.

 While using equal parts nostalgia and current events together, danyol’s pop-influenced mixed media paintings explore the liminal spaces between surface and emotion; gender role, responsibility and reality; along with other inconsistencies in our fragile social fabric.

 “I want to bring part of my everyday life into my art and show people that there is beauty in the mundane, harmony in the abstract and power in the inspiration.”

 “It’s like Warhol having dinner with Tex Avery with light carnival music playing in the background.” homeless person outside my show.