Dan has been at the Florida School of the Arts in Palatka Florida since 2011 teaching mostly 2D Design, 3D Design, Sculpture, and Ceramics. He has been teaching in higher education since 1991. He has taught at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, where he was director of the sculpture program and the university gallery. He also taught at the University of Southern Mississippi posthumously to receiving his bachelor of fine art degree there in 1991. He received his master of fine art degree in sculpture from the University of North Texas in 1994, where he was a Teaching Fellow.

Besides his experience in Higher Ed, Dan has worked as a graphic artist and sign painter, a special effects motion control camera assistant for ILM (Industrial Light and Magic), an architectural sculptor for themed architecture, and as an arts coordinator for a community outreach program for at-risk youth.

With an extensive background in foundry he has participated in numerous cast iron conferences, but is constantly seeking to expand his sculptural vocabulary beyond his metal casting roots. His work often includes the use of found objects, fabrication in a variety of materials, video, ceramic elements, kinetic components, painting, photography and graphics. Dan has shown extensively throughout the south and southwest in group invitationals, juried exhibitions, and several one man shows.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“With a love for pure function and the patina that comes from prolonged use, my works hint at vague mythologies surrounding the vast plethora of apocalyptic scenarios, both imagined and “legitimately” prophesied. Black humor, along with a chaotic mash-up of media process becomes the lens through which to view a confused reality. The range of influences are evidence of a re-adolescent skeptic with more questions than answers. Insect morphology, ancient and tribal art, hydrodynamic and aerodynamic forms, mechanical engineering, the history of space exploration, fractal geometry, robotics, SETI, comic books, popular science fiction, and toys, create a catalogue of images to anxiously explore a potential future past.”