Daniel Freeman

Biography

Born: 10/18/1981 United States   “My creations allow the enthusiasts a glimpse of the evolution of the process of who I was, am, and hope to be.” Daniel Freeman “Watching love leave” 48” X 48” Acrylic and night glow on wood. The son of a “preacher man,” Daniel Freeman was born in South Ozone Park Queens New York, and grew up mostly in St. Albans Queens New York. Both his parents originally from the old segregated south being evangelical missionaries who instilled in him a feral sense of the gospel. His parents expected him to follow in their messianic footsteps, but Daniel had other ideas. Rebelling against his parents stifling, literal interpretation of scripture, he left home at the tender age of sixteen and struck out to find his own truth. What followed was trial and tribulation, but, ironically, it was romantic heartbreak not religiosity, that seared his conscience in 2003. Bereft and forlorn because of limerence, it was God that spoke to him and simply said to paint. And paint he did. A mixture of avant-garde postmodernism and ineffable etherealism, his work is not to be categorized, understood, or even misunderstood. It is simply to be taken in like one would take in a new breath of a new day. An autodidactic painter his work lacks the pretentiousness and self-reverence of those aligned with this or that “school.” Instead what one gets is a feeling of lightheadedness from viewing his work, not a feeling of heavy handedness. Not shock or awe but serenity is at the core of his painting. He found peace through painting after the agony of unrequited love and he strives to bring you along to his own personal redemptive eden. The only question is are you willing to go. Daniel resides in Manhattan NY. Myspace.com/DanielFreeman13 Email: DanielFreeman13@Yahoo.com

Work by Daniel Freeman