"My work explores the connection between the artist and the model, the energy exchanged between the two. It's about emotional response, tactile, visceral, abstract, created with a limited color palette, leaving the brush strokes and drips raw and unrefined. It's as much a conversation as a picture, a snapshot of emotion, a thread running between the observer and the observed. Connective Tissue."

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Cacophony

03.05.10 Posted in Ambiguation, Balloon Experiments, Blog, News, Seeds by Daniel Liam Gill

Caophony, Acrylic and Colored Pencil on Wood, 24" x 48"

I started this paint­ing with an acid yel­low base and red painted with a bal­loon. I asked my model April if I could use her a s brush. She’s small with great def­i­n­i­tion. I placed green and pur­ple along the edges of the paint­ing, she lied down in the paint and water mix­ture and I guided her back and forth over the sur­face three or for times until an image emerged. I then spent about 20 hours on the result, find­ing shapes and edges. This varies greatly from my nor­mal color palette. I never use an acid green like this and tried to tone it down through­out the paint­ing. I gave up fight­ing with it about 17 hours into the work and some­thing hap­pened. I used a color that matched the green and the draw­ing uni­fied. It shim­mers in the light like an insect’s wing, impos­si­ble to cap­ture with my camera.


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Featured Artist in March

02.28.10 Posted in Balloon Experiments, Blog, Dysphagia, Events, News, Seeds by Daniel Liam Gill

I am the fea­tured artist this month at My Color Image Gallery in Chat­tanooga, TN. Here’s a pre­view of the fea­tured works and a thanks to Kate O’Brien Clarke, the model for a major­ity of the Dys­pha­gia Series.


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Cumulo Lunas

02.18.10 Posted in Ambiguation, Balloon Experiments, News by Daniel Liam Gill

Some­times there are paint­ings where the muse takes over and magic jumps from the sur­face and guides my hand. I didn’t think much of this one when I added the blue green layer. It was truly as mess. I walked by it a few times and then I saw the seashell thing pop out at me. I nailed to to the wall and the was the Moon, mouth agape and singing in my ear. The clouds formed them­selves with the help of some oils that Whit­ney gave me. This isn’t my usual color palette and I never by flesh color. It worked great for this com­po­si­tion. The Riv­oli wel­com­ing me with open arms, it head back in a good natured guffaw.


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Polyploidy

02.17.10 Posted in Ambiguation, Balloon Experiments by Daniel Liam Gill

The first in a series of larger pieces mea­sur­ing 24″ x 48′, this piece exper­i­ments with ani­mal and veg­etable forms. The seething stew at the base and the rib­bon storm over­head in a courtship dance. Bad writ­ing and pre­ten­sion aside, it’s a col­lec­tion of pleas­ing and vio­lent shapes whose mean­ing is yours to interpret.


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Sentinels

02.16.10 Posted in Ambiguation, Balloon Experiments, Seeds by Daniel Liam Gill

I’m gear­ing up for my fea­tured show at My Color Image Gallery in March, doing fig­ure work and bal­loon paint­ings. The first or which is this piece that I call “Sen­tinels”. I’ve used this 12″ x 24″ for­mat before on my hip stud­ies and have adapted it to fit these abstracts. I start with a warm layer, usu­ally yel­low and some red, let that dry and add the cool layer, stare at the thing and see what speaks to me. Easter Island must have been buried in my sub­con­scious, I found these stone sol­diers form­ing in the ver­dure. My brother showed me how to spot spi­ders using a flash­light at night. He shone it on the hedges and I was amazed at how many tiny eyes stared back at us. Some of those eyes are in “Sentinels”.


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Accepted to My Color Image Gallery

01.14.10 Posted in Events, News by Daniel Liam Gill

Gametes, Acrylic on Wood, 24" x 24"My work has been accepted to My color Image Gallery on Fra­zier Avenue in Chat­tanooga, TN. I will also be the fea­tured artist for the month of March with the fol­low­ing events scheduled:

Meet the Artist
4pm-​7pm
March 4th2010

Meet the Artist Demo
1pm-​4pm
March 132010

Finale’ Gala
4pm-​7pm
March 252010

Drop by if you’re in the neigh­bor­hood. It’s a great gallery fea­tur­ing local artists

Spe­cial thanks to Terri Zitrick-​Dennehy for the opportunity!


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Ploidy

01.06.10 Posted in Balloon Experiments, Blog, News, Seeds by Daniel Liam Gill

Ploidy, Acylic on Wood, 24" x 24"Ploidy is a Dys­pha­gia type con­struc­tion with a sand­wiched bal­loon exper­i­ment as it’s base. It doesn’t fit into the rest of the series but looks very much like a tad­pole on it’s way to froggydom.

I’ve never been too found of this shade of yel­low but it does work well in this composition.


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Zygocyte

01.05.10 Posted in Blog, News, Seeds by Daniel Liam Gill

seeds0810New work in the Seeds Series, a bal­loon paint­ing on wood. I’ve decided to dis­play this work at a 45 degree angle as it expands from the bot­tom point out­ward. Zygo­cyte is the ini­tial cell formed when a new organ­ism is pro­duced by means of sex­ual repro­duc­tion. I’ve blended the illu­sion of ani­mal tis­sue with plant, the start of another season.


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Mannaz

01.03.10 Posted in Blog, Dysphagia, News by Daniel Liam Gill

Mannaz, 16" x 24" , Painted tape on masoniteAnother in the rune series of painted tapes on ges­soed masonite, Man­naz fea­tures two por­traits of Julie, one of Quin, and parts of other mod­els. I really love the break­ing of form and the rhythm of these pieces. The two sep­a­rate por­traits of Julie, though not the same scale or color, read as Julie. It’s funny how the mind wants to bring order to chaos.

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Uraz

01.02.10 Posted in Blog, Dysphagia, News by Daniel Liam Gill

Uraz, 16" x 24", Painted Tape on Masonite Assemblage

This is a smaller tape assem­blage made from por­traits of Mila, Samara and oil sketches from Hip­bone Stu­dio. Named for the rune Uraz, mean­ing strength and health. I see power in this piece, it’s cen­tered around one of the most inter­est­ing peo­ple I’ve every met, Mila Lupe, she’s got a power run­ning through her like none I’ve ever felt before. The same can be said for Samara but it’s a more quiet cur­rent like the grass growing.

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