"Dan Hernandez: New Work" art exhibit
“Dan Hernandez: New Work” solo exhibition at 20 North Gallery
Toledo area artist debuts all-new videogame-inspired paintings
Toledo, OH—December 24, 2021. On Friday, January 14, 2022, 20 North Gallery will welcome back local artist Dan Hernandez in “Dan Hernandez: New Work”, a new exhibition including his paintings and screenprints created during the turbulent, previous year. Featuring three series—two of which are making their Toledo debut—the exhibit will include all-new paintings that combine new media and traditional painting techniques, while synthesizing video game design and the influences of art history to explore the visual dialogue between religion, mythology and pop culture.
The exhibit will open with a free, Public Reception on Friday, January 14, 2022 from 6 – 9 p.m., featuring a light tapas buffet and cash bar. The exhibition will continue through March 26, 2022.
North Gallery art director Condessa Croninger remarks, “Dan Hernandez’s work blends both digital appropriation and hand-painted iconography of early European Renaissance masterworks with historic and contemporary video game imagery, to draw intriguing, pithy and occasionally humorous analogies between them. The end result is simultaneously thought-provoking and visually compelling.”
The mixed media artworks of Dan Hernandez create a captivating intersection between art styles of the past and present. Having identified similarities between the narrative styles of medieval, Renaissance and 8- and 16-bit video game art, Hernandez takes elements of digital design then draws, paints and screenprints engrossing works that connect cultures hundreds of years apart. Longtime fans of Hernandez’s work will be delighted to see new pieces of his Genesis series, as well as to view the debut of his new Reset and Los Santos series. These new series draw inspiration and source material from a variety of consoles and games including Nintendo, Sega Genesis and Grand Theft Auto V.
Dan Hernandez (Maumee, Ohio)
Dan Hernandez was born in San Diego, California in 1977. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2000 from Northwest Missouri State (Maryville) and a Masters of Fine Arts in 2002 from American University (Washington, DC). He currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at The University of Toledo (Ohio). Since 2017, he has served The Arts Commission (Toledo, Ohio) on the Board of Trustees and as Co-Chair for the Art in Public Places Committee.
Hernandez has had solo exhibitions in galleries in Ohio, Michigan and Arkansas. His work has been included in many group exhibitions, including shows at Shizaru Gallery (London, UK), Cindy Rucker Gallery (New York City), Contemporary Arts Center (Las Vegas, Nevada) Lehman College Art Gallery (Brooklyn, New York), Westport Art Center (Westport, Connecticut), and the Riffe Gallery (Columbus, Ohio) and MassArt Art Museum (Boston, Massachusetts). Hernandez is represented at Galeria Meraki in Ponte de Sor, Portulgal in addition to Kim Foster Gallery (New York City) and 20 North Gallery (Toledo, Ohio). His work is in numerous private collections, both national and international, and has been featured and reviewed in several distinguished publications, including ARTnews, HyperAllergic, Artillery Magazine, Arte Fuse, Gizmodo, and Der Spiegel.
Dan Hernandez was awarded the Bellinger Award at the Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art in 2010 and has been twice selected for an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, in 2011 and 2015. His most recent exhibitions were The Garden of Earthly Delights, Through the artworks of Colección SOLO Matadero Madrid, Centro de Creación Contemporánea (Madrid, Spain) as well as the two-artist show Hyphenated at McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) in 2021.
In addition to the featured exhibition, 20 North Gallery continues to display glass, paintings, jewelry and artists’ cards by noted artists of the region. Gallery hours are Wednesdays through Saturdays from noon to 4p.m.
The “Dan Hernandez: New Work” online exhibition catalogue, containing art images of the full exhibit, artist information and artwork prices will be posted on the exhibit page at 20northgallery.com soon.
What: “Dan Hernandez: New Work” art exhibition
Where: 20 North Gallery, 18 N. St. Clair Street, (Downtown) Toledo, Ohio 43604, 419-241-2400
When: January 14 – March 26, 2022
Gallery Hours
Wednesday – Saturday:
Noon – 4 p.m.
and By Appointment
Free public opening reception: Friday, January 14, 2022, 6 – 9 p.m.
For More Information Contact: Condessa Croninger (Art Director) or visit www.20northgallery.com
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