BIOGRAPHY

Dan Welden is a printmaker and painter who has had over 60 national and international solo exhibitions, including shows in Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Switzerland, Peru, Japan, and Germany. He has been the recipient of grants from The New York State Council on the Arts, The Vogelstein Foundation of New York, The Ministry of Dutch Culture in Belgium, The Amata Aboriginal Community in Australia, and the Diocesan School in Auckland, New Zealand. Dan has collaborated and/or printed for many prominent artists including: Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Erick Fischl, Louisa Chase, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers, Dan Flavin, Jim Dine, Robert Motherwell, Linda Benglis, David Salle and Kurt Vonnegut. Dan is also responsible for the discovery and development of the "solarplate" process and is co-author with Pauline Muir of "Printmaking in the Sun."

As an educator, Dan has established his own international school for the past 5 years in Florence, Italy; Lima, Peru; Tokyo, Japan; Mykonos, Greece; Corsica; France, and Iceland. Dan Welden approaches his art as a series, usually pushing and pulling its boundaries to process-oriented works on paper. As a "green" thinking person, his work involves the observation of lines and patterns created by animals on grasslands, usually seen with raking light. The pathways created by erosive waterways within the earth also intrigue him. Although the inspiration of these patterns originated in New Zealand, he is influenced also by his love of travel to many other places.

As both a printmaker and painter, the passion in Dan's work includes many a playful line, usually dancing and meandering within the composition. His use of color generally echoes the particular environment that he works within.

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