Daniel Eli Dronsfield is an Artist, Experimental Filmmaker, Investigative Journalist, Explorer, Activist, and Poet, who has worked in 30 countries, concentrating for the last four years on a residency in Los Angeles.  
    
    His work is as eclectic as Nature and flows between Portraiture, Sculpture, Abstract Painting, Video Installation, Re-contextualizing Landscapes, Live-Action Experimental Art Comedy, and Place-Making.  He is one of the foremost pioneers of Forrealism.

 

Contact the Artist: salshakes@gmail.com
 
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     The vast majority of his Los Angeles work has been installed on the streets, in public.  Most recently his series of 'Daniel Paradise' garbage installations in the gutters and parked cars of Koreatown.  The purpose of these works is question the concept of how Art can be interacted with.  They are fine examples of Forrealism and Place-Making as they often interact so cohesively with their environs as to be overlooked as random, serendipitous, debris.  They also represent how environments inspire the creators who exist inside of them.

    This show "The City That Sleeps"  seeks to explore ideas of Exterior/Interiors.  In a long tradition of Los Angeles and London street artists eventually taking their works to Gallery, this exhibition seeks to alter interior environments (both physical and mental) through the act of bringing what was once outside, in.  
    The method combines photographic work, elements of decoupage, as well as abstract painting, all actualized on discarded building materials.  Many of these images found their genesis in the extensive media activism that has been undertaken by the Artist in the Labor Rights and Immigrant Rights communities of Los Angeles, as well as from photojournalistic forays to Nicaragua, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Brasil.  

    Also showing:

    "Grime" investigates the very city beneath our feet.  Much like the rainbow of petroleum in a puddle in a parking lot, with the right kind of eyes, we can find the sublime in the grime on our streets.  This element of the show celebrates and camouflages the filthiness that paints the streets of our fair city (Los Angeles).  
    These pieces represent part of a larger conceptual work, as all the prints are actualized on paving tiles, they will eventually be cemented onto a floor as a permanent installation in an as yet undecided location.  

    "This Machine Kills Robots" Is a print series, which addresses the enforced daily interactions between modern humans and robotized authority, and previously was disseminated largely in gas stations and on the subway.   The method used is the very similar to the technique use to create "The City That Sleeps".

*In a blatant violation of one of the most profound tenets of Forrealism, this show represents the first time these works will be for sale to the public.