Real life hides in the ridiculous.
About
Dan Winter is a painter whose work blurs the line between high art and low humor. His paintings blend loose, intuitive brushwork with the humor and emotional shorthand of meme culture. Influenced by artists such as William Hogarth, Duane Michals, and Maurizio Cattelan, who all use satire and humor as a serious artistic language, Winter paints images of cats, butts, aliens, and other absurd internet characters as a way of reflecting on the deep poetics of everyday life. His work is a reminder that laughter can be as meaningful as any form of communication, and that even the most ridiculous image can tell the truth.
Winter originally trained as a photographer at Point Park University, where his practice began to expand into street installation and painting after taking an Impressionism course at Carnegie Mellon. During graduate school at The George Washington University, his work grew to include interactive, technology-driven projects, but he has since returned to painting as a more direct and human way of connecting with others. Winter now lives and works in Pittsburgh.
Contact
Phone: 412-390-4606