DANIEL D. STINE
|
Daniel D Stine’s unique landscape paintings have been on display throughout the Mid and Southwest. Born in Mesa Arizona, he began creating art from an early age and has used the process of creation as a tool for relaxation and mediation from the beginning. Growing up in the desert, with its wide-open skies and subtle colors, he developed an artistic perspective that combines detail with a sense of space. All of his paintings are meditations on the subject mater often taking months to complete. Daniel hopes that viewers will not only be moved, but also experience sensations related to the space, be it temporal or textural. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago graduating with a BFA in Art History in 2007. Daniel is an avid traveler and gets much of his inspiration from the landscapes he explores and the people he meets. Daniel has studied and practiced his art in Flagstaff, Arizona; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Prague, Czech Republic. He currently resides outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico by the Pecos River with his partner and cats Baast and Wybie.
|
Artist's Statement
I am curious about exploring the mechanics of how ideas can be depicted pictorially and the nuances within those forms that elicit emotional response. The emotional response being less about happy or sad, but rather conveying the feelings associated with vastness, isolation, companionship, etc. Ideas that interest me are notions of time, space, and trying to understand my/our place in the contemporary world.
Painting has become a necessary aspect of how I interact and perceive the world around me. I do this as an attempt to understand a memory through a detailed recording: to articulate, as well as establish, my perspective. A truer representation of a place, or experience is sought when I start a painting. In this process a meaning is revealed, a memory is clarified, an idea discovered or expanded upon. Although my subject matter is recognizable the aim is not for realism, but a slight abstraction of the real; a representation that hopes to go beyond the surface. They are explorations in a visual symbol that try to uncover perception’s characteristics through abstraction.
In each piece I attempt to integrate aspects of the place into the painting through the use of different styles, techniques, textures, etc. In this patchwork I seek to produce something original through the quilting of aspects of its character and my own individual perspective.
Painting has become a necessary aspect of how I interact and perceive the world around me. I do this as an attempt to understand a memory through a detailed recording: to articulate, as well as establish, my perspective. A truer representation of a place, or experience is sought when I start a painting. In this process a meaning is revealed, a memory is clarified, an idea discovered or expanded upon. Although my subject matter is recognizable the aim is not for realism, but a slight abstraction of the real; a representation that hopes to go beyond the surface. They are explorations in a visual symbol that try to uncover perception’s characteristics through abstraction.
In each piece I attempt to integrate aspects of the place into the painting through the use of different styles, techniques, textures, etc. In this patchwork I seek to produce something original through the quilting of aspects of its character and my own individual perspective.
