daniel rosenbaum - bali for cafe

daniel rosenbaum

I was born a raised in Brooklyn. When I was a kid I knew everyone on the block and a lot of them in the school yard as well. I would be outside all day everyday playing stick ball, football, wiffleball, stoop ball, and punch ball. Those were the days parents didn' t worry about bad stuff happening, I didn't even know I lived in NY back then, it could have been anywhere. I became interested in art to stop from being lonely. My father taught me how to paint when I was about 10, although I had been the class artist since elementary school. All through my childhood I did art at school and at home I made assemblage sculpture, drawings, paintings and had a very busy dreamlife. I used to dream about the people in my neighborhood and eventually dream about the most surprising things, like one of my neighbors had an alien space ship hidden under his front lawn. Some of them are lucid dreams where I wake up in the dream and experiment with flying.I have been exhibiting in New York, nationally, and internationally for several years, including at PS1, with eyewash in Williamsburg, Voxpopuli, Ronald Feldman, Allan Stone, Artists Space, White Columns, and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, among other venues. My work is informed by trees, plants,water, light, energy, fossils, automatic writing, my subconscious, surface, sexual angst, and weathering. Its done with brushes, palette knives, buckets, pouring, iridescent paints, acrylic mediums, on the floor and on the wall. Its created by drawing with a palette knife to create ridges and the paint pools in the valleys like cloisonne.