Daniel Deluna

Bio:


Rochester, NY based artist Daniel DeLuna has exhibited his painting, drawing and digital work internationally. Starting as a painter, his work has been greatly extended and influenced by his engagement with digital media at the same time retaining the connection to the initial practice in those traditional mediums. Working with an abstract visual language, he creates richly evocative work influenced by art history, music, and design. He holds an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. and is currently Associate Professor in the School of Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Statement

My work consisting of paintings, drawings, digital video and stills, engages with the language of abstraction. Superimposed intervals of horizontal or vertical lines generate a rhythmic structure with accents and beats that become the field for the foreground elements that often hold, or become surrogates for, figural associations.

The work takes a nod at the history of traditional abstraction as filtered through and informed by the pervasive influence of technology on contemporary culture. Digital tools are used extensively in the creation of the work as I employ both common software as well as highly specialized high-...

2002 MFA
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.

1994 BFA
Ball State University, Muncie IN.

2023

68th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition
Memorial Art Gallery
Rochester, NY 14618

2022

Lines Fiction
Galerie im Körnerpark
Berlin, Germany

Happy Valley Animation Festival
Penn State University
State College, PA

Anonymous Drawings 2022
Galerie im Körnerpark
Berlin, Germany

Small works exhibition
Main Street Arts
Clifton Springs, NY

Magnitude Seven
Manifest Gallery
Cincinnati, OH

Supertoon International Animation Festival
Hrvoja Macanovica 25
10000 Zagreb
CROATIA

2020

Grey Matters
Divisible
Dayton, Ohio

2018

Abstracta
Roan and Black Gallery
Saugatuck, Michigan

2017

Group show Faux Mouvement Centre d’art contemporain, Metz, France

Group show Kunstlerhaus Saar, Saarbucken, Germany

Group show La S Grand Atelier, Vielsam, Belgium

Group show Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg

Group show Apothecary, Chattanoga, Tennesee

2016

Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) v.2
Boecker Contemporary
Heidelberg, Germany

Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) v.2
Angelika Studios
Buckinghamshire, England

CIRCLES/SCRIBBLES/SQUARES
Roan & Black Gallery
Saugatuck, Michigan

Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) .v2
Corridor Projects
Dayton, Ohio

3 Ways
Resident Arts
Columbia, Missouri

Freshmen Class
Ro...