Current Gallery: fineartphotoandpaint ( piece)
".....Drawing upon his background in graphic design, Tacker employs that field’s traditional illustrative techniques, merging comfortable aesthetics with more stigmatized methods of creating art like graffiti. He uses a cross of abstract forms and organic forms, to create a hybridized vernacular, identifying tensions of media and market driven culture. Daniel Tacker's latest collection of work encompasses the connections between the rural and urban, organic and high-tech, consumer and mass-market driven environments, often building a sense of urban beauty . Through various techniques of graphic design, ink, pen, marker, aerosol and acrylic paint, Daniel's art explores the dichotomy of these worlds and how they correlate to one another. Sometimes they are humorous, sometimes satirical, and sometimes stating the obvious. Daniel often seeks to bring recognizable imagery to the viewer and place it where it does not belong....." -Dixon Gallery, Memphis, TN
".....Drawing upon his background in graphic design, Tacker employs that field’s traditional illustrative techniques, merging comfortable aesthetics with more stigmatized methods of creating art like graffiti. He uses a cross of abstract forms and organic forms, to create a hybridized vernacular, identifying tensions of media and market driven culture. Daniel Tacker's latest collection of work encompasses the connections between the rural and urban, organic and high-tech, consumer and mass-market driven environments, often building a sense of urban beauty . Through various techniques of graphic design, ink, pen, marker, aerosol and acrylic paint, Daniel's art explores the dichotomy of these worlds and how they correlate to one another. Sometimes they are humorous, sometimes satirical, and sometimes stating the obvious. Daniel often seeks to bring recognizable imagery to the viewer and place it where it does not belong....." -Dixon Gallery, Memphis, TN