Daniel Schiavone's portfolio

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Fists of Fury

About Daniel

Baltimore City, Baltimore City - Highlandtown A&E District

After moving to Highlandtown in 1996 Daniel Schiavone quickly became involved in neighborhood revitalization efforts which led to developing the Patterson Theater as a home for the Creative Alliance. After leaving the Creative Alliance, he continued to contribute to the community creating highly visible events including the Highlandtown Wine Festival and the Highlandtown Basement Bar Tour. He served on the Enoch Pratt Anchor Library Steering Committee and led efforts to develop the… more

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unstretched

My unstretched series preserves an unfinished quality in the works, an open-ended-ness physically and narratively. The canvas was primed with rabbit skin glue to retain the natural color of the canvas. The paint has been built up — canvas, under painting, and drawing exposed. I want the viewer to get a sense of where these objects come from, that a person stood in front of them with a brush, reacting to each new mark. There was no preconception, no formula. Self awareness can be an obstacle. Self-consciousness is not easy to avoid for a trained artist. Yet it can be something to push against. These works strive for immediacy. Dressed down, undressed, and unstretched.

spider

acrylic on canvas My unstretched series preserves an unfinished quality in the works, an open-ended-ness physically and narratively. The canvas was primed with rabbit skin glue to retain the natural color of the canvas. The paint has been built up — canvas, under painting, and drawing exposed. I want the viewer to get a sense of where these objects come from, that a person stood in front of them with a brush, reacting to each new mark. There was no preconception, no formula. Self awareness can be an obstacle. Self-consciousness is not easy to avoid for a trained artist. Yet it can be something to push against. These works strive for immediacy. Dressed down, undressed, and unstretched. My unstretched series preserves an unfinished quality in the works, an open-ended-ness physically and narratively. The canvas was primed with rabbit skin glue to retain the natural color of the canvas. The paint has been built up — canvas, under painting, and drawing exposed. I want the viewer to get a sense of where these objects come from, that a person stood in front of them with a brush, reacting to each new mark. There was no preconception, no formula. Self awareness can be an obstacle. Self-consciousness is not easy to avoid for a trained artist. Yet it can be something to push against. These works strive for immediacy. Dressed down, undressed, and unstretched.

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Family Tree

family tree, acrylic on canvas
ring

ring, acrylic on canvas
dryad

dryad, oil on canvas
archangel

archangel, acrylic on canvas
tube

tube, oil stick and oils on canvas
worm

worm, acrylic on canvas

apparitions and premonitions

Apparitions and premonitions is a series of paintings and drawing that span 911. The paintings expressed a feeling of foreboding by depicted a ghosts hovering above a city. With the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in March of 2001 the work began to contemplate world events. The series ended with a small group of paintings that tried to digest the events of 911. Viewers have mentioned that the series contained some prophecy.