Kindergarten cave paintings
Paintings pictures of this terrestrial experience
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Current events
Solo Show CadFab Creative Culver City Arts District 2021
About
Ready for flight
Damon Schindler raised in L.A.'s San Gabriel Valley was born on December 27th, 1972 on an Air Force base in Sacramento, California. His great grand parents built a modest home in Alhambra, Located in Eastern Los Angeles while his other great grandparents resided in Pasadena. Living near the Huntington Library and Gardens .His great grandfather Emil Luks worked as a commercial photographer and at times painted with his brother George Luks of "The Ash Can School" in New York during the early part of the 20th century.
The generations to follow would remain just east of the Los Angeles River. In 1994 Damon pursued his love of art by studying at the renowned California Institute of The Arts (Cal Arts). After obtaining his bachelor's degree in fine arts in 1997 he went on to share his knowledge by teaching art at an alternative high school in Los Angeles.
He has spent 10 summers working with students selected for the California State Summer School for the Arts, producing individual film and video projects. Damon, who now works as the resident scenic artist for the Los Angeles Opera, Is constantly expanding the scope of his art and working to present his work in the public sphere with the help of his father whom assists in making this website possible with true inspiration and support.
Selected Paintings from my collection
Damon Schindler
Style in your eyes
My work is influenced by the painting tradition of expressionism, reading, pondering ,world history ,western northern American histories and the cultures I experience in the City of Angels and out yonder . I am particularly drawn to painting landscapes, people and creatures reacting to their moment in time, be it current horrific events or the wonder of life unfolding before them
Education
1997 BFA Fine Arts
CAL ARTS
Valencia, Ca
Publications
2022
Art and Cake L.A.
Art of the Doodle
Studio Visit volume 45
selected paintings
1996 LA Weekly
Huarache Stomp
Al's Bar
L.A. Arts District
Exhibitions
2023
Roth & Taylor Fine Arts
Paintings / 3 person show
Culver City Arts District
2021
CadFab Creative
solo painting show
Culver City Arts District
2016
Gallery 800
Group Show
NoHo District
2008
Ghetto Gloss Gallery
Paintings
Silver Lake ,CA
2005
Carthay Gallery
Paintings
Los Angeles, CA
2002
Gallery Figueroa
Paintings
Highland Park, CA
2002
Controlled Experiment
Visual ,audio and performance
SCA Gallery
Pomona, CA
2001
Mental vs. Vegetable
Painting, sculpture, performance
Downtown Los Angeles, CA
2001
Time and Place
Painting, sculpture
Lebec, Ca
2000
Blue Bird Gallery
Painting
Santa Cruz, Ca
2000
Holly Matter Modern Art
Paintings
Los Angeles, Ca
2000
Museum Jose Luis Cuevas
Found object/sculpture
Mexico City, Mexico
2000
Stevenson Blanch Devearux Gallery
Cal Arts
Valencia, CA
1997
L- Shaped gallery
Cal Arts
Valencia, CA
1995
A.M.O Gallery
Silver Lake, CA
1994
Mt. San Antonio C.C.
Painting Exhibition
Processing paint
With my mind open processing the terrestrial experience I start swinging the brush across the canvas to hone in on the image that reveals itself as I chase out the details and nuances allowing for a play of abstraction and clarity.
well ...also I ponder ,read and make sketches and drawings beforehand that end up in some form or another into my paintings