Statement:

My artwork focuses on the dramatic use of color, light and texture to create subtle and sometimes explicit visual metaphors of contemporary and often nostalgic life. Sometimes within a series of work, the inspirations for my paintings are derived from the visceral notions of construction and destruction. In some works, the imagined sense of space and time are captured.

Biography:

Dan  Lopez studied ceramics working under (the late Richard DeVore)and Ken Hendry while obtaining a B.F.A. at Colorado State University.  Lopez graduated in 2001 with a B.F.A and in 2006 earned a Master’s in education while instructing and living in Denver.  In 2001, Lopez’s ceramic tea pot was inducted into “C.S.U.’s ceramics study collection.” Less than a year later, Lopez took an artistic turn when he discovered oil painting from Patrice Sullivan. He began painting pictures on his own. Most images were studies of landscapes and still lives, later the images began to reveal his interest in the notions of war and civilization with a return to quiet luscious landscapes. While some  subjects are figures and buildings in “space,” his work focuses not so much on a particular place but on the dramatic use of color, light and texture. This has brought him to be placed in private collections throughout: Colorado, Arizona, Tennessee, Hong Kong, Scotland and the U.K.