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When the Dust Settles
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Daniel Brewer received his BFA at the Cleveland Institute of Art, in ’81, and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art, in ’83, with a year abroad Printmaking Study in Rome. He has received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship award, and has exhibited works in many galleries across the country. Brewer is an art teacher, living and working in Pennsylvania
I draw my inspiration from debris I find on the streets of Philadelphia. Crushed cans, corroded metal and discarded paper items set my process in motion. Using these abstract shapes as a starting point, I develop pictorial narratives which hover between a representational and abstract idiom. It is the transformative process and the energy these objects are infused with that fascinates me. I use the shapes derived from these objects as building blocks to create new abstract forms, often 4iguratively suggestive. The paintings develop over the course of weeks or months of construction and deconstruction. Surfaces and images are built, moved, ground out, and reinstated, yet some element of the original source material always remains. I refer to the process as “building inward”. My goal is to take these abstract shapes from street trash and fashion emotionally charged, visually poetic statements that obliquely address the angst of our contemporary world.
When the Dust Settles
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