D Truthsayer

My work is idea and feeling based. It has been compared to the work of Cecily Brown, Oskar Kokoschko, and Hieronymus Bosch.
Why make Art:
I want to be of use, to be an asset to the bio-world. Produce something that grips the heart, informs the mind. I offer, but don’t try to force anything.
I bring things into myself: history, scientific discoveries. Art becomes an affixing of the resolution of these thoughts,.
What Kind:
People in all guises get lots of coverage from artists. While my life has had rocky times, this is not the world that grips my imagination, rather, the one beyond it.
My intuitive connection has been with different beings, somehow possible to connect with on a common experience level. The skein of mentality, of interaction, of seeing into, or inhabiting another creature’s world. The multi-experience of that- imagine how rich! Some have other senses: e.g. bees and birds that can see ultraviolet, octopi with multiple brains, and dogs that can smell Covid19. All of our ways of coming to understand more; AI communication, medical exploration, brain scans, physics that posit multi-verses, vast organisms like the 106 acre Pando Aspen forest: these other ways of experiencing this world.
Each creature inhabits a world...

University of California, Los Angeles, Major: Studio Art, Minor: American Indian Studies 2011, Summa Cum Laude
Associate of Arts Degree, Santa Monica College
New School Of Art, Toronto Canada
Former artist member of Gallery 825, Los Angeles and Second City Gallery, Long Beach

Multiple exhibitions...
H Gallery, Ventura CA, curated
Online exhibitions during COVID
Broad Art Center, Los Angeles CA, multiple exhibitions, curated
Angels & Demons, A Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles CA, juried
Dia de Los Muertos, 2nd City Council Art Gallery, Long Beach CA, juried
Black Light II, The Hive Gallery and Studios, Los Angeles CA, curated
Faith and Superstitions Exhibition, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach CA, juried
Juxtaposed: Light, Shadow and Form Revealed, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated
Fourth Annual Women’s Festival of the Arts, 2nd City Council Art Gallery, Long Beach CA, juried
the shadow and the everything metaphor, Upstairs@The Market Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2 artist
Available Space, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, group
Garden 2004, Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica CA, curated