Daniel S. Solloway
Artist
With color, line, and contrast,
Daniel S. Solloway explores
what he calls “the mystical or
spiritual side of life.”
Solloway
is a relentlessly inquisitive
artist who has experimented
with many styles and media
over his long career. His recent
work, a series of abstract mixed
media paintings, features
flowing webs of color that buckle and crest like eddies
of water.
Solloway packs contrasts of tone, light, and
direction into each piece, making them masterworks
of tension. Yet the paintings are not rigid – on the
contrary, they are intensely fluid. Colors shift into each
other continuously, like a kaleidoscope view pinned
to the canvas. Shapes thin out into lines, then gather
back up into shapes.
There is no beginning or end
to Solloway’s mesmerizing patterns, only the rolling
sensation of a continuous composition. The positive
and negative space, intricately entwined, creates an
image with boundless depth.
Solloway was born in Woodward, Oklahoma and
currently lives in Oklahoma City.
He has worked with
many integral figures of the southwest American art
scene, including Dord Fitz.
