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Studio Spaces II, 2025
Oil on Linen
24 x 24
Oil on Linen
Daniel Dallmann comes from a family sympathetic to art. Apart from his family, a mid-century small town in central Minnesota had little to offer as an artistic influence. Nevertheless, by the end of the 1960’s Dallmann had earned Bachelors, Masters, and MFA degrees, followed by securing a coveted position teaching at the prestigious Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and at the Temple University campus in Rome, Italy.
Fifty years ago his work was inclined to be more literal, but over time he began to eschew the narrative as he sought to trust the process and the visual properties of the medium. Now he begins his work on a hunch, usually involved with a contrast, a collision, or a friction of elements. As the work progresses, he’s aware of an unspoken murmur of thoughts, memories, projections, and desires, all associated with the representational and formal elements with which he is working. That murmur is what he calls “the voice of the muse.” Noticing and responding to that soft voice becomes the real challenge of his work. “It is there that I’ll find the statement that I didn’t know I was going to make.”
24 x 24
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Studio Spaces II, 2025
Oil on Linen
24 x 24
Daniel Dallmann comes from a family sympathetic to art. Apart from his family, a mid-century small town in central Minnesota had little to offer as an artistic influence. Nevertheless, by the end of the 1960’s Dallmann had earned Bachelors, Masters, and MFA degrees, followed by securing a coveted position teaching at the prestigious Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and at the Temple University campus in Rome, Italy.
Fifty years ago his work was inclined to be more literal, but over time he began to eschew the narrative as he sought to trust the process and the visual properties of the medium. Now he begins his work on a hunch, usually involved with a contrast, a collision, or a friction of elements. As the work progresses, he’s aware of an unspoken murmur of thoughts, memories, projections, and desires, all associated with the representational and formal elements with which he is working. That murmur is what he calls “the voice of the muse.” Noticing and responding to that soft voice becomes the real challenge of his work. “It is there that I’ll find the statement that I didn’t know I was going to make.”
24 x 24
Oil on Linen
Click artwork to view details (it may take a few seconds to load)
Studio Spaces II, 2025
Oil on Linen
24 x 24
Oil on Linen Mounted on Cradled Panel
25 x 30
Daniel Dallmann comes from a family sympathetic to art. Apart from his family, a mid-century small town in central Minnesota had little to offer as an artistic influence. Nevertheless, by the end of the 1960’s Dallmann had earned Bachelors, Masters, and MFA degrees, followed by securing a coveted position teaching at the prestigious Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and at the Temple University campus in Rome, Italy.
Fifty years ago his work was inclined to be more literal, but over time he began to eschew the narrative as he sought to trust the process and the visual properties of the medium. Now he begins his work on a hunch, usually involved with a contrast, a collision, or a friction of elements. As the work progresses, he’s aware of an unspoken murmur of thoughts, memories, projections, and desires, all associated with the representational and formal elements with which he is working. That murmur is what he calls “the voice of the muse.” Noticing and responding to that soft voice becomes the real challenge of his work. “It is there that I’ll find the statement that I didn’t know I was going to make.”