| Innerspace/Outerspace, 2006, acrylic on canvas, 84 x 72 inches |
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Daniel Davidson’s characters
are often self-portraits of his multiple personality-stricken alter ego.
They conjure up the worst (maybe best?) case outcome of the path not taken.
Many times they are victims of self-indulgence, seeking solace in pills,
alcohol and food. In Davidson’s head-on portraits he creates his
images by a Rorschach-like process in which he draws half the face and
then folds the paper over to achieve a mirror image second half.
Daniel Davidson was born in 1965 in San Francisco, California and is living
and working in New York City since 1993. He completed his undergraduate
degree in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1990. The artist
first starting exhibiting his work as a collaborative known as Beattie & Davidson
in the late eighties at Germans Van Eck Gallery and the Joseph Hellman
Gallery in New York. Davidson received the 1994 Rome Prize in Visual Arts,
at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. In 1993 he received the National/International
Studio Program at P.S.1, (New York) as well as the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art
Foundation, Studio Space Program also in New York. |
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