“Painting is an intimate conversation within myself, the canvas is like the pages of a diary and at times I am is willing to share this intimate conversation. The pages are fragile the edges farad, some have been torn out of frustration some smeared from fear of failure some wrinkled from being held to tight, some have been dipped in dreams and dried in the sun and some are waiting to be turned. What is said between the words become more important than the words themselves. Art at its best moves something that is indefinable within myself. This is why I turn the pages.”
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“Dan McCaw is a contemporary American artist that lives and works in Torrance California with his two accomplished artist sons John and Danny. His work is a bridge between his traditional background and the contemporary influences that continually impact his art. Strong design is the foundation that his work is based upon but curiosity is the fuel that drives his creativity. “Art flourishes in change, it expands when its limits are limitless. The artist must remain open to its possibilities and eliminate the dispassionate. The dignity of art is not in its constants but in the liberation of its possibilities. “ Influenced by the classical masters at an early age Dan, over the years, has seen his appreciation and seduction for many different genres of art. “Anything that make me think, makes me engage and broadens my perceptions is of great importance and interest to me.” Dan tries to make his paintings somewhat ambiguous so that the viewer, if they wish, can participate and walk through a door that he just holds open, what you find inside becomes your own. If he defines or explains everything Dan feels that he robs you of your own experience. Dan was raised in a small colorful tough Irish mining town of Butte, Montana, whose people were far richer in character than the precious copper that was mined day and night. It was in these formative years much of his own character was molded and from which he constantly draws upon. Dan began my formal art training at the San Francisco Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California when he was twenty, then on to the Art Center College Of Design, in Pasadena, California and the Bongart School of Art in Santa Monica, California. He was a on the facility of the Art Center College of Design for over fifteen years, has have had over forty Solo Exhibitions, numerous national and international articles, written one book and in 2007 was given an Honorary Doctorate degree in 2007 by the San Francisco Academy of Art University . Dan lives with wife Stacey in Torrance, California, has five children and eight grandchildren. BORN Dec 16, 1942 Seattle, Washington EDUCATION Montana Tech of the University of Montana Butte, Montana Academy of Art University San Francisco, California Art Center College of Design Pasadena, California Bongart School of Art Santa Monica, California Honorary Doctorate Academy of Art University San Francisco, California 2007 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2014 Anne Irwin Fine Art, McCaw Legacy, Atlanta, GA 2013 Morris & Whiteside Gallery Three Man Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC Long Beach Museum, Group Show, Long Beach, CA California Museum of Fine Art, Group Show, Torrance, CA 2012 OFA Invitational, London, England Gallery 1261, Group Show, Denver, CO Gallery 25 CPW, Converge” New York City, NY Lancaster Museum, Past and Present, Lancaster, CA Morris & Whiteside Gallery, Three Man Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC 2011 Madden Museum, Windows to the Devine, Denver, CO Gallery 1261, Winter, Group Exhibition, Denver, CO District 3 Contemporary, Torrance, CA Gallery 1261, McCaw, Denver CO Anne Irwin Fine Art, The Man Exhibition, Denver, CO 2010 Gallery 1261, Small Works, Denver, CO 2009 Saks Gallery, American Art Invitational, Denver, CO Gallery 1261, Group Show, Denver , CO 2009 Gallery 1269, Small Works, Group Show, Denver, CO 2008 Gallery 1261 Group Exhibition, Denver, CO Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Two person Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ Gallery 1261 Group Exhibition, Denver, CO 2007 Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ Gallery 1261 Group Exhibition, Interpretation of the Figure, Denver, CO C.M. Russell Museum, Invitational Art Auction, Great Falls, MT American Art Invitational, Group Exhibition, Denver, CO Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Auction, Hilton Head, SC Trailside Galleries, Group Exhibition, Jackson, WY Trailside Galleries, Small Works, Scottsdale, AZ 2006 Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC Gallery 1261 Group Exhibition, Small Works, Denver, CO Howard Manville Gallery, Invitational, Seattle, WA Gallery 1261 Group Exhibition, Large Works, Denver, CO 2005 American Heritage invitational Exhibition, Houston, TX Timmons Galleries, Three Man Show, Solana Beach, CA Wendt Gallery, McCaw Tradition Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA Trailside Galleries, Two Man Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ Mendenhall Sobiski, Group Exhibition, Pasadena, CA Gallery 1261 Group Exhibition, Small Works, Denver, CO Salon D’ Arts, Group Invitational Exhibition, Denver, CO. 2004 American Heritage invitational Exhibition, Houston, TX Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC Wendt Gallery, McCaw Tradition Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA Timmons Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Rancho Santa Fe, CA Anne Irwin, Invitational Exhibition, Atlantic, GA Salon D’ Arts, Group Invitational Exhibition, Denver, CO. 2003 American Legacy Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Kansas City, MO Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ American Heritage invitational Exhibition, Houston, TX 2002 American Legacy Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Kansas City, MO Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC 2001 American Legacy Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Kansas City, MO Timmons Galleries, Group Exhibition, Rancho Santa Fe, CA Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ 2000 Legacy Gallery, Group Exhibition, Livingston, MT Gladney Foundation Invitational Exhibition, Houston, TX Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC Altermann Galleries, Group Exhibition, Dallas, TX Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ 1999 American Legacy Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Kansas City, MO Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ 1998 American Legacy Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Kansas City, MO 1997 American Legacy Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Kansas City, MO Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ 1996 Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ 1990 SLBA Invitational Exhibition, Saint Louis, MO Biltmore Invitational Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA 1988 Shriver Gallery,Solo Exhibition, Taos, NM Biltmore Invitational Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA 1987 NWR invitational Group Exhibition, Helena, MT 1986 Shriver Gallery,Solo Exhibition, Taos, NM 1985 Society of American Impressionists Invitational Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ 1980 Shriver Gallery, Group Exhibition, Taos, NM 1985 Society of American Impressionists Invitational Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ 1980 Shriver Gallery, Group Exhibition, Taos, NM 1978 Green Street gallery, Solo Exhibition, Pasadena, CA 1977 Green Street gallery, Group Exhibition, Pasadena, CA SELECTED ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS Easy Reader 2013 American Artist, Studios, 2011 Focus, China , Dan McCaw, January 2010 American Art Collector, Friends and Art, Oct Art and Antiques Magazine April 2008 American Art Collector October 2005 International Artist December/ January 2003 Southwest Art Magazine May 2003 Southwest Art Magazine March 1996 Island Scene Magazine Spring 1995 Art Talk February 1995 Southwest Art Magazine October 1994 Southwest Art Magazine February 1993 Fine Art Collector February 1991 Western Art Digest Summer 1985 Southwest Art Magazine March 1983 Art Voices South September 1979
