Danny Folkman
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BoldBrush Recommends: Danny Folkman
Biography
While I'd like to consider myself a landscape painter, I think "urbanscape" might be a more accurate title for my subject matter. I've always been attracted to our built environment. The history of our cities and architecture fascinates me endlessly, and visually, something about the big shapes, sharp lines and dramatic lighting just gets me going. I'm particularly attracted to the imperfections in our buildings - it gives a place character and grounds it in reality. Nothing is perfect, so might as well embrace it. I'm inspired best by places most people pass by every day without a thought- alleys, freeways, bridges, etc. That's why the LA River has attracted me more then any other subject, with it's colorful patchwork of concrete, messy telephone wires and some of the most beautiful bridge architecture I've ever seen- in a place where nobody really sees them!
My goal with each painting is always to achieve a sort of painterly-realism, using a vibrant palette to create a heightened sense of reality, but just enough so that it's still believable. I feel this approach allows me to accurately capture the feel or mood of a place as I've experienced it, rather then just painting what I see.
Biography:
My family likes to joke that I was born with a box of crayons. I've been drawing for as long as I remember, but painting is a relatively new thing for me. I started doing black and white ink renderings of buildings and cityscapes in my teens, and it wasn't until my senior year of AP studio art that my teacher, Dr. Richmond Garrick, noticed my work and demanded I start painting. Historically, some would describe me as stubborn. Others would say extremely stubborn; so I can't say I cared much about his suggestion. I finally gave in, and when I realized that color wasn't the monster I'd made it out to be, I never went back.
I was born and raised in South Jersey, so most of my early work was of the incredible architecture that Philadelphia has to offer. At some point, I started drawing neighborhoods in Los Angles via google street view, and I fell in love with the place, long before we ever visited in-person. The atmosphere in Southern California made for bright highlights and big, sharp shadows, that paired well with the ink drawings I was doing at the time.
Finally, the only family vacation we've taken outside of Florida was to California in 2015. That was the first time I'd seen mountains in person. We started in San Francisco and ended in Los Angeles. You can imagine the state of awe that California demands having only ever known the East coast - a place that can accurately be described from New York all the way down to Florida as flat, green and cloudy.
Needless to say, I'd found where I belonged.
I currently live in Los Angeles. I thank God every day that I get to wake up in the place I love to paint, and I hope that love shows in my work.
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