"music builds strong bones in girls " ::: 12 " x 12 " ::: October 2009

I wish the music program at my elementary school was not cancelled. I really think it is more important for children to learn the arts as opposed to learning sports. Both are great but if you have to cut one, cut field hockey!

1800 Tequila just released this video of all of the bottles of the winners of the design contest. Check it out! Mine is 2nd in the video. They will soon have a great website where you can find a bottle near you!

Where you can see my art now!!

Ongoing - "It's all about the Hair" - Hair Science Gallery - Now thru November. Opening reception part of ArtSpan Open Studios Friday Oct 9th!

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!

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.

 

Here is a video of me painting two pieces start to finish. 2007