Daniel Oliva, a Philadelphia based artist, holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. He has had exhibitions at Pentimenti Gallery, Painted Bride Art Center, Sedgwick Cultural Center, CFEVA, Main Line Art Center in Philadelphia; About Glamour Gallery, Brooklyn; and more. Many private collectors have commissioned his paintings.
His work will be on view at the Green Line Baltimore from January 3rd through February 28th.
Daniel Oliva – Selected Night Works
“In the current exhibition of selected paintings and digital collages from the series “Nightscapes” I have explored eternal themes of darkness and light, knowledge and ignorance, culture and nature through a new lens: satellite imagery of the earth and universe. Our understanding of these new satellite images and their consequences for our culture is still in early development, but I believe they belong to the art historical landscape tradition as it moves into the 21st Century. Through new technology we gain immense knowledge about the cosmos, simultaneously the stars in our night sky are disappearing as the face of our planet increasingly resembles those stars. Today we have gained more knowledge of the universe than any people in history, and every night we look for stars in a night sky that is diluted by a multitude of burning bulbs.
My ultimate goal is to present the viewer with something they have not seen before, and will need to be aware of if they choose to consider humanity’s current and future place in the universe.”
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