Suspended Action by Daniel Wagner
Opening Reception Friday, November 5th from 5pm - 7pm
DANIEL WAGNER
Daniel was born in a small town in northeastern Wisconsin. He remembers always having an interest in the arts. He went on to graduate with a degree in architecture from the University of Minnesota. Daniel worked as an architect for over 25 years, many of those years focused on commercial high rise projects creating many major architectural wonders that dot the skylines of London, Shanghai, Barcelona and Chicago.
In 2008 Daniel retired from being an architect so that he could devote himself to painting. In the first couple of years he did several group shows and then a number of solo shows. By 2012 Daniel had moved to Provincetown on a part-time basis, splitting his time between Chicago and Provincetown. In Provincetown he immersed himself in painting, he saw this as a quest to better understand the art, the artist, and how he could best redefine himself. In 2016 he moved to Provincetown as a full-time permanent resident becoming a member of the local art community. Since 2018 he has been represented by Sarah Jessica Fine Arts Gallery of Provincetown. In 2019 he was one of the inaugural studio artists juried into The Commons. He is a longstanding member of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) as well as The Chatham Center for the Arts.
In spite of all of his training in the Arts and Architecture, Daniel considers himself to be a self-taught artist. His first love and greatest early focus was in Abstraction. When he first started to paint on a full-time basis his works were architectural in nature. Eventually he started to depart from some of the constrictions and limitations of the architectural form, and discovered the human form as a subject matter. He found the human form to be a hierarchy of structures, but believes painting starts with a gesture re-inferring some of the symmetry and nuance of his original training.