Alex Asher Daniel

Alex Asher Daniel (born May 14, 1973) is an American contemporary artist and composer. He uses a broad variety of materials including painting, sound installations, photography, drawing and film. A Los Angeles native, he has since lived and worked between London, New York City, and the Bay Area. Personal life Born and raised in Pasadena, California, Daniel received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, and was a fixture in the Oakland, California underground Hip-Hop scene in the 1990s. In college Daniel was inspired to dive deeper into his studies of mysticism and the esoteric by his then English teacher beat poet Michael McClure. Career As a visual artist Daniel has worked primarily in painting, portraiture, drawing, and collage. Inspired by nature, mysticism and the human form, Daniel’s work explores meaning within the unseen space around his subjects and their relationship between the inner and outer world. As a portraitist Daniel works specifically from live sittings spending time assessing the aura of the individual subject and incorporating the colors into his work. His works reside in numerous collections worl