Daniel R Velasquez
b. 1988
Milwaukee and Chicago based post-modernist.
“A lot of it, whether self portraiture or text, seems like an extension of self reflection. It seems you’re more interested in self-exploration than your audience's response. The text you chose is rather disarming; at once it is both intimate but also abrasive, inviting only to the artist”
-Melyn Lyons (on the series “Intimate/Hostile”)
Dan Velasquez is a contemporary, post-modern artist with an emphasis on the conceptual while retaining representation in his work.
Velasquez’s art often taps into the raw emotions that so many people share in common: anger, frustration, and bitterness. All of these components of the larger scale “psyche,” are given representation not only in visual elements in his work, but often the source from which the work as inspired.
Not all of his work, however, shares that intent. Velasquez demonstrates awareness for multiple subject matter as well as media. His works range from installation, painting, printmaking, and photography to sculpture, drawing, and illustration.
His work continues to explore several ideas such as the relationship between the sonic world and the visual realm. “Fear of a Black Planet” was a series he had completed in 2008. It was based on visually representing the groundbreaking, Public Enemy album of the same name. A very important aspect of Velasquez’s work is that he tends to work in series or groups of work at a time with a single driving concept. He has stated that, “Working in contained series allows me to experiment and explore several different areas, without having to sacrifice the work to relating to all of my other work. I find it important to make art in different medias. The concept should always have a direct correlation to the type of material you use or don’t use. I never work in a single media for too long. It tends to get really boring.”
Velasquez was born in 1988 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 until 2009. He then went on to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee: Peck School of the Arts to continue his studies in Art Education.
Milwaukee and Chicago based post-modernist.
“A lot of it, whether self portraiture or text, seems like an extension of self reflection. It seems you’re more interested in self-exploration than your audience's response. The text you chose is rather disarming; at once it is both intimate but also abrasive, inviting only to the artist”
-Melyn Lyons (on the series “Intimate/Hostile”)
Dan Velasquez is a contemporary, post-modern artist with an emphasis on the conceptual while retaining representation in his work.
Velasquez’s art often taps into the raw emotions that so many people share in common: anger, frustration, and bitterness. All of these components of the larger scale “psyche,” are given representation not only in visual elements in his work, but often the source from which the work as inspired.
Not all of his work, however, shares that intent. Velasquez demonstrates awareness for multiple subject matter as well as media. His works range from installation, painting, printmaking, and photography to sculpture, drawing, and illustration.
His work continues to explore several ideas such as the relationship between the sonic world and the visual realm. “Fear of a Black Planet” was a series he had completed in 2008. It was based on visually representing the groundbreaking, Public Enemy album of the same name. A very important aspect of Velasquez’s work is that he tends to work in series or groups of work at a time with a single driving concept. He has stated that, “Working in contained series allows me to experiment and explore several different areas, without having to sacrifice the work to relating to all of my other work. I find it important to make art in different medias. The concept should always have a direct correlation to the type of material you use or don’t use. I never work in a single media for too long. It tends to get really boring.”
Velasquez was born in 1988 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 until 2009. He then went on to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee: Peck School of the Arts to continue his studies in Art Education.