Dan Pyle

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Dan Pyle (2012)

Dan Pyle (born April 4, 1954 in Wolf Point , Montana ) is an American photographer and illustrator. He is a representative of contemporary realism . His works are mainly charcoal drawings that focus on figurative objects in general and the human body in particular.

Life

Career and artistic influence

Weary Traveler (2014)

Dan Pyle was born in Wolf Point, Montana and raised in Washington State . He is a descendant of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Dan Pyle has been painting since childhood and received awards for his work at an early age. However, he began his artistic career with training as a ballet dancer at the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle and a love of black and white photography, both of which have contributed significantly to the development of his artistic style. In addition, Pyle's work is characterized by the contrasts and edge blurring of Jan Vermeer and William Turner . In terms of motifs, the human body is in the foreground of his work, which he is able to represent authentically and expressively as a former ballet dancer with its muscles, shapes and movements. After moving to California , Dan Pyle settled in West Hollywood and developed his coal technology with new materials.

Style and techniques

Lost in the Moment (2008)

Pyle's techniques initially included oil and acrylic paintings and later wall paintings for public spaces. After various phases in which he also experimented with ink, pencil, pastel and watercolors , Pyle finally found the charcoal pencil as the medium of his choice.

In addition to focusing on the human body, there are unconventional and aged objects that he photographs and transforms into his charcoal compositions: In addition to living figures, old teapots or rusted motorcycles become his models, which he recognizes through the use of contrast, negative space and blurring gives a new identity. The anonymity that his art reflects is object and intention at the same time.

Crushed (2014)

Pyle's play with shadows and contrasts seems to make the presence of color superfluous, so that only a few of his works have deliberately weak color characteristics. Even in his current phase, the artist is keen to experiment and works, for example, with smaller formats on wood. The underground with its idiosyncratic structures gives the applied coal technology an additional dimension.

When processing his works, Pyle aims to include negative space in the current drawing by means of matting that is offset from the object. By avoiding a final photographic sharpness, his work breaks away from photorealism and finds its own interpretation of modern realism.

Exhibitions

Dan Pyle's works are mainly exhibited in the USA and increasingly also in Europe . One of the largest private collections is located in the reception area of ​​the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas with 23 pictures. Further exhibitions took place among other things. a. in Palm Springs , Beverly Hills , Los Angeles , Hollywood, Santa Ana , Long Beach and New York , as well as in Canada and Malaysia .

  • In Pursuit of Freedom (1) (2009)

  • In Pursuit of Freedom (2) (2009)

  • In Pursuit of Freedom (3) (2009)

Honors and awards (selection)

  • 2015 Still Point Art Quarterly - Chasing the Light (finding the shadow) - Best Drawing for "Shadows"
  • 2014 American Art Awards - 1st place, Still Life category for “Weary Traveler”
  • 2013 American Art Awards - 1st place, charcoal, for "In Pursuit Of Freedom"
  • 2012 American Art Awards - tied 1st place for “Predicament” in charcoal category
  • 2011 1st Prize winner - LarkGalleryOnline - The Rediscovery of Wonder, for “Silver Lining” & “The Accuser”

literature

  • 2015 Art Exhibeo Magazine - Dan Pyle: Time for you and Time for me
  • 2015 Still Point Art Quarterly - spring issue
  • 2014 Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 17, pages 55–56
  • 2014 Important World Artists, Vol. 1
  • 2014 Hidden Treasures Art Magazine, yearbook 2014
  • 2014 Art of Man magazine # 16 - interview 10 pages
  • 2014 Drawing Magazine - spring issue - interview, 2nd prize winner
  • 2013 Art to Art Palette Journal - “Simple is Beautiful”, Portrait of Dan Pyle
  • 2013 Artist Portfolio Magazine, anniversary issue 2 page spread
  • 2013 Artist Portfolio Magazine, portraits issue, full page feature
  • 2013 Artist Portfolio Magazine, winter 2 page spread
  • 2013 Still Point Arts Quarterly, 'Everyday Objects', Spring issue
  • 2012 Strokes of Genius V: The Best of Drawing — releasing Oct. 2013
  • 2012 Wisdom Crieth Without (magazine) - Nov./Dec. issue, full page
  • 2012 Still Point Arts Quarterly, Summer 2012 Issue No. 6 - Still Point IV exhibition winners
  • 2011 - International Dictionary of Artist - World Wide Art Books
  • 2008 Scott Brassart, in: Bottom Line Magazine, April Vol. 27, Issue 16

Web links

Commons : Dan Pyle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Art-to-Art Palette 08/2013, pp. 1–4
  2. ↑ See Art Galleries Los Angeles, Artist Interview 2014
  3. ↑ See Art of Man, Issue 16, January 24, 2014, p. 30
  4. ↑ See Art Galleries Los Angeles, Artist Interview 2014
  5. ↑ See Art-to-Art Palette 08/2013
  6. ^ Art Galleries Los Angeles, Artist interview 2014
  7. ↑ See Art-to-Art Palette 08/2013
  8. ↑ See Art Galleries Los Angeles, Artist Interview 2014
  9. ↑ See Scott Brassart, in: The Bottom Line Magazine, Palm Springs 2008
  10. ↑ See Art-to-Art Palette 08/2013
  11. ↑ See Art of Man, Issue 16, January 24, 2014, p. 27
personal data
SURNAME Pyle, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolf Point , Montana