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Dan McCaw: Weekend With the Masters Instructor
Dan McCaw was born in 1942 and raised in Montana and during
his academic art career attended the Montana Institute of Technology, in Butte
Montana; Academy of Art University, in San Francisco; Art Center College of
Design, in Pasadena, California; and the Bongart School of Art, in Santa
Monica, California.
A solid foundation of design, color and value distinguishes McCaw's
expressive paintings and provides a starting point for an exciting exploration
of new ways to look at familiar objects.
He was an instructor at the Art Center College of Design for
17 years and received an honorary doctorate from The Academy of Art University.
Throughout his career, he has had more than 50 solo exhibitions and been the
subject of numerous articles in national and international magazines including
Art and Antiques Magazine, American Art Collector, Southwest Art magazine, and
International Artist.
McCaw is at the forefront of bridging representational art
with contemporary sensibilities and believes in encouraging artists to find a
unique voice and vision. "I believe that everyone has an inherent desire for
original thought, and an artist I find a passion to visually express something
within myself that cannot be defined but have faith that it exists," he says.
"I am constantly measuring the strength of my own convictions, trying not to
change my art to fit what galleries, critics, and society deem acceptable, for
when an artist chains himself to the opinions of others he or she will loose
the most important thing that he has to contribute: his own voice and
individuality."
A skilled and discerning interpreter of color harmonies,
light and mood, the core of McCaw's work is based on expressing feeling and
emotions with the fewest elements, that less is more. Nearly three decades
after embarking on his artistic journey, Dan McCaw continues his quest for
maximum expression, pushing his art into exciting new territory. Dan McCaw and
his wife Stacey live in Los Angeles, Ca. For more information on McCaw, visit
his website.
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