dan hamilton

Born 1952, Argentina
Has practiced at Creative Growth since 1975

Dan Hamilton has achieved great technical and creative skills in painting, drawing, ceramics, and textiles during his tenure in Creative Growth’s Studio. Hamilton’s paintings and drawings are characterized by their flat perspective and dedication to solid color forms. With clearly defined lines that carefully surround each color field, Hamilton’s figurative works, consisting primarily of animals, landscapes, and buildings, are not vastly different from his abstract works. Hamilton approaches ceramic sculpture with the same efficiency by hand-building large minimalistic animals and “loaves,” and covering them with just one or two high gloss colors. These formidable ceramics are irresistibly thick and smooth, with swaths of color that rise and bulge within their organic forms.

Dan Hamilton ha logrado grandes habilidades técnicas y creativas en pintura, dibujo, cerámica y textiles durante su permanencia en el Estudio de Creative Growth. Las pinturas y dibujos de Hamilton se caracterizan por su perspectiva plana y su dedicación a las formas de colores sólidos. Con líneas claramente definidas que rodean cuidadosamente cada campo de color, las obras figurativas de Hamilton, que consisten principalmente en animales, paisajes y edificios, no son muy diferentes de sus obras abstractas. Hamilton se enfoca en la escultura de cerámica con la misma eficiencia al construir a mano grandes animales minimalistas y "panes", y cubrirlos con solo uno o dos colores de alto brillo. Estas formidables cerámicas son irresistiblemente gruesas y suaves, con franjas de color que se elevan y sobresalen dentro de sus formas orgánicas.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2021
Architecting California, Tierra del Sol Gallery, Los Angeles

2020
Inter-Avant-Garde, Roger Center for Fine Arts, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln