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Daniel Leighton, Artist

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Daniel Leighton is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist whose work arises from resurrected memories and persisting visions. His early career encapsulated the imagery of his mind through video art, technology and theory and has presently summoned expression through digital painting. Being faced with his mortality since childhood due to illness, the workings of the body are crucial and revered. As Leighton paints, he follows his physical pain to a place of physical relief. This results in an emotional landscape, which he uses to find connection to self and to other. Leighton's paintings can be watched as if they were a film, with story and arc. They are about the artist as well as the viewer as they themselves become a part of the piece through interaction. Depicted are expressions of feelings that immerse the viewer in new elements. Leighton exposes himself, opening up his wound and showing his discovery: there is beauty, power, love and understanding where he once believed he held only pain. His journey inward results in the manifestation of a tool and a guide in the form of a painting, distinguishing what is real and what is a feeling. Higher learning through metaphysics, empathy, and love as telepathy unite what is separated by space and time, life and death. Leighton received the prestigious Regents and Chancellors Scholarship from UC Berkeley where he graduated cum laude with a BA in filmmaking. In 2010, Leighton began using an iPad as his medium and is a pioneer in iPad painting.

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Daniel Leighton, Artist

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