Dan Arensmeier

All my life I have been an artist. On my 8th birthday my Mom and Dad gave me a very used Schwin bike, told me that I could paint it any color I wanted and I painted it bright purple. Drew and water colored Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck a zillion times. When I was 15 I got a seriously beat up, rusty, very hot, Hot Rod and painted it bright yellow. I won awards, national awards for my art work and one of my pieces traveled all over Europe. I seriously studied painting, drawing, sculpture, jewelry design, ceramics, two and three dimensional design at the university, always wanted to be an artist.
Got married had a family and needed to get a job – like for rea, steadyl money – so I did that. Forty five years later I started painting again - seriously. Had my first ever “art show” in 2001 and mind blowingly 350 people showed up, took a lot of paintings home with them and I have been painting ever since.
An old friend of mine who had collected some of my work bought a little airline in Costa Rica – at one of my early art shows he asked me to come to Costa Rica and be the “Alexander Calder” for his airline, so I did that also – designing the paint schemes for eight aircraft and commuting to Costa Rica in the process.
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Went to a consolidated High School in a very small, rural town in Oregon – 2500 kids in a town of 8,000 folks.
Studied art at Taylor University in Upland Indiana, even more rural for one year.
University of Oregon - Art and Architecture and Liberal Studies. It was there I studied studio painting, ceramics, jewelry design, ceramics, two and three dimensional design. And there it was that Buckminster Fuller came to speak at our 11:00 am design class and spoke for 12 hours.
Pacific Northwest College of Art – studied drawing, painting, two dimensional design and sculpture from Manuel Esquerido.
Colorado State University – drawing and figure painting from Judy Sorbe and poster design from John Sorbie. While there met Andy Warhol, Red Grooms, Sam Francis, Rauchenberg, Claus Odenberg, Cristo – all of whom visited and held workshop at the Art Department.
Art Students League of Denver – modeled on the New York Art Students League I studied under Quang Ho and Dale Chisman and took printmaking and sculpture classes.
Visited every museum and gallery that I could in my travels from MOMA to SFMOMA, from Cranbrook to the High in Atlanta and everything in between as part of “my education"

2001 Carriage House Gallery – At Schleier
Mansion Denver – One Man Show
2005 Greenwood Community Church – One Man
Show of 10 oil paintings.
2004 Art Students League of Denver – Summer
Art Market
2004 Black Arrow Ranch – One Man Show
2005 Art Students League of Denver – Group
Show of students and instructors.
2007 Havu Gallery – Group Show for Denver non-
profit
2008 Red Shift Gallery - One Man Show
2009 Reach Studio at RedLine Denver Colorado.
Helped start Reach Studio, a studio and
professional art show venue for outsider
artists. Showed work at Reach Studio.
2009 Foster Gallery – One Man Show
2010 Carriage House Gallery – One Man Studio
Show
2011 Carriage House Gallery – Two person show
with painter Mary Baum
2014 Carriage House Gallery – Open Studio Art
Show.
For the last 14 years I have been painting, self promoting, having open studio art shows in my studio and have collectors in:
San Jose, Salitral Costa Rica
Sarasota, Sanibel Florida
Portland Oregon
Beijing China
New York New York
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