***For Immediate Release*** .

First Friday, December 1, 2006
(Show runs through the end of the month) .

Perihelion Arts
(address and contact information at very end of email) .

Presents.

DANIEL MARTIN DIAZ (Tucson) .

Opening Reception with Artist: .

6:00 p.m. – Midnight.

Daniel's work is a culmination of his life's explorations fused with an extraordinary painting style that hauntingly presents a mingling of saints, angels and religious iconography with Latin text and symbology. Each piece is so rich and deep with unique colors that the eyes tour the visual wonderland while the subject matter simultaneously stirs the mind. From the painting, itself, to the impeccably handcrafted frame, this is work that never leaves the viewer.

***Please contact Perihelion Arts to request further images from this show***.

Miraculum Christus, Oil on Wood
Pictured without Frame.

Recent Exhibitions:
2006 - Billy Shire Fine Arts, Solo Exhibition, Culver City, CA, March 4th - 29th
Henry Boxer Gallery, Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY, Jan 27th-29th
2005 - Arizona State Museum, Solo Exhibition, Sept - Nov
Jonathan LeVine Gallery, Chelsea District, New York, May - June
.2004 - Perihelion Arts Gallery, Solo Show,"VISIONS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE",
Phx,AZ, Nov - Dec
Solo Exhibition, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Hollywood, CA, May
Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Works From The Permanent Collection, Sept
Tin Man Alley, “Ghost Town” Group Show, Philadelphia, PA, Oct – Nov
M Modern Gallery, “Things with Wings”, Group Show, Palm Springs, Oct
Self-Help Graphics Gallery, “Devotional Art” Group Show, LA, CA, Sept - Oct
2003 - Tin Man Alley, Exhibition with Chris Mars, Philadelphia, PA
New Prints 2004/Winter, International Print Center. New York
Roq la Rue, Seattle, WA
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Center on Contemporary Art - Seattle, WA.
Homage to Father Kino, International, Italy, Mexico, and the USA
Visionary and Fantastic Art, Orange Regional Gallery, Australia
2002 - CPOP, Milagros, Detroit, MI
Castle Kuenburg, Payerbach, Austria
La Luz De Jesus, Solo Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA.

Client List:
PBS, Warner Bros/Atlantic Records, Rolling Stone Magazine, Spin Magazine, MTV-2, Juxtapoz Magazine, Low Rider Magazine, Graphic Design USA, Shade Magazine, 3x3 Magazine, HM The Hard Music Magazine, Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art Book Vol. I and II, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, New American Paintings, Equilibrium Magazine, Alter Ego, Versus Magazine, Christianity and the Arts, New American Paintings, Wave Magazine, New Zealand Feature Film, "Orphans and Angels."

Permanent Collections and Archives:
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Laguna Art Museum / Orange County Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, Shemer Art Center and Museum, New Mexico State University, San Antonio de Padua Catholic Church - Sonora, Mexico, US Santa Barbara Library-Caridad Archive of Chicano Printmaking in California, Huntington Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Galeria Sin Fronteras / Austin, Texas, The Gerald Buck Collections Self-Help Graphic's Traveling Exhibition Print Program, Mexican Fine Art Center Museum, Permanent Collection, Chicago, and the Instituto Cultural de Baja California.

(Further bio information, images and statements available upon request)

Perihelion Arts
1500 Grand Avenue
(corner of 15th ave/grand/roosevelt aves.)
Phoenix, AZ 85007
602.462.9120 Gallery Amy Young or Douglas Grant
602.334.6299 Amy Young Cell
Please contact Amy Young for any information related to the show,
including further artist information, artist or gallery interviews
and for all purchasing inquiries.

dreamless

An image from the show

***For Immediate Release. Please contact Amy Young 602.334.6299 for any pre-show sale inquiries/questions***

First Friday, September 1st

Perihelion Arts
(address and contact information at very end of email)

Presents

Particularities: A Celebration of Perspectives
Featuring exceptional paintings by:

Travis Louie (NY)

Brendan Danielsson (GA)

Mark Elliot (NY)

*****(Artwork Below)*****

Opening Reception:

7 p.m. – Midnight
with Travis and Mark on hand all evening—please come and meet them and learn about their interesting work.

Travis Louie

When I was about 5 years old, I wanted to be King Kong. I wanted to climb the Empire State Building, clutching a beautiful little blond woman, while bi-planes circled around me trying to shoot my hairy ass down. Fortunately, I never acted any of that out. Most of my early childhood in New York, was spent making drawings and watching "atomic age" sci-fi and horror movies. So many Saturday afternoons included trips to the local comic shops and noon matinees at the RKO Keith's on Northern Blvd, marveling at the 1950's memorabilia; the rocket ships, the superheroes, the giant monsters, and those wonderful movie posters! I would try and draw as much as I could remember from those excursions.
It was my grandfather who noticed my enthusiasm for art. He encouraged it, by taking me to museums, buying me art supplies and eventually building my first drawing table. I think I was 12 when I decided that I wanted to be an artist when I grew up.
After high school, my formal art training was at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. When I graduated in 1990 with a BFA in Communication Design, I started doing freelance illustration work for various clients, including National Westminster Bank, LILCO, Chemical Bank, Esquire Records, Showtime Video, Doubleday publishing, etc, while also creating murals for restaurants, movie theatres, and banners for Kawasaki Motorcycles.
My work has appeared in:
Spectrum Book 5, Book 6, Book 7, Book 11 and
Spectrum Book 12 (gold medal winner for "Goblin in Formal Dress circa 1893")

2006-1992 Selected Exhibitions
Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, Wa
Copro Nason Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca
La Luz De Jesus, Los Angeles, Ca
William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
Fuse Gallery, New York, NY
Art Basel/POP ART Studios, Miami, Fla
Hope Gallery, New Haven, Ct
Williamsburg Art & Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
Stanfordville Public Library, Stanfordville, NY
West 30th Gallery, New York, NY
Meridian Gallery, Sea Cliff, NY
Warde-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY
East Meadow Public Library, East Meadow, NY
Voodoo Gallery, New York, NY

Brendan Danielsson

Brendan Danielsson’s paintings inspire imaginative conclusions--on how they were conceived and what scenario, if any, the work is derived from and/or conveying. Born in the small town of Springfield, Missouri, he left after high school to attend the prestigious Ringling School of Art and Design, in Florida. It was there that he met his talented girlfriend and upon graduation they relocated to Atlanta. After taking a few years to pursue things other than art, Brendan jumped back into the swing of things by creating the website Art Dorks and has been painting his humorously dark and impeccable pieces ever since.

EXHIBITIONS

2006

Mark Elliot
As a child, Mark Elliott was overly impressed with
Fleischer Popeye cartoons, Norman Rockwell, and
anything involving dinosaurs. The dinosaurs he would
draw life-sized on taped-together shirt boards in the
living room. He then graduated from the School of
Visual Arts with a BFA in Illustration in 1990. He has
since illustrated numerous book covers for Harper
Collins. Scholastic, Knopf, Clarion Books, and Holiday
House. He is also the illustrator for the picture
books 'Grandpa Has a Great Big Face' and 'The Candle
in the Window' for Baker Bookhouse.

His work has been exhibited at the Society of
Illustrators, The Art director's Guild, shows at the
Fuse Gallery (NYC), La Luz de Jesus (L.A.), Hope Gallery, and the
Toyroom Gallery. He also has appeared in several
Spectrum and Society of Illustrators annuals.

His art is influenced by a garden salad mix of
N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Vermeer, and the master
of notan Ernie Bushmiller. He currently resides at
Heron Hollow in the Hudson River Valley.

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