CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS
Dan MAY (American, 1955-)
Title: "Cowboy"
*Signed UL
Circa: 2020
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Board
Framed size: 14" x 14"
Board size: 12" x 12"
Image size: 9" x 10"
Price: $850
Dan May is an American painter and printmaker born on March 11, 1955 in San Francisco, CA. Raised in aesthetic surroundings heavily influenced by his architect father, May grew up learning to view all things with an eye for design, color, and shape. At age 5, he remembers his father cutting up a book of drawings by Henri Matisse and hanging them on the walls of their home. The French master Matisse as well as Richard Diebenkorn and David Hockney are his favorite art influences. He began his first attempts at painting at age 15, and later began to experiment with printmaking, teaching himself various techniques such as woodblock printing, etching, silkscreen printing, and monoprinting.

Monoprinting soon became May's medium of choice due to its wide range of expression and spontaneity that he felt other techniques lacked. May - "With monoprinting, you can only work a piece for as a long as the paint stays wet, so the resulting print has a feeling of movement and immediacy. I also like how monoprinting allows the brush strokes to transfer a transparent light quality to the print. For me, this is a technique that bridges drawing, painting, and emotions." The themes of May's prints borrow from his fantasies, memories, and the people and places he has seen in life's checkout lines and waiting rooms. "My work allows me to be a voyeur, to see through the walls into life's secrets, and unveil the hidden stories of everyday life," he says.

Color and design are essential elements in May's work. Exploring and playing with color is a huge source of enjoyment and passion for May. "Working with color combinations, playing color against color to create an electric contrast, never ceases to excite me," he says. May finds working color with design elements and balancing compositions is challenging, frustrating, and supremely rewarding.

Today, Dan May lives and works in Oakland, California. He has shown his paintings and prints in galleries predominantly throughout California and his work is in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the United States and the world.
Title: "Criminal #23"
*Signed LL
Year: 2018
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas Board
Board size: 8" x 10"
Price: $350
Title: "Nude (Green)"
*Signed LR
Circa: 2000
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Plexiglass (Monoprint plate)
Framed size: 14.5" x 10.13"
Image size: 13.25" x 9"
Price:
SOLD
Title: "Nude (Orange)"
*Signed LL
Circa: 2000
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Plexiglass (Monoprint plate)
Framed size: 17.5" x 11.25"
Image size: 16.25" x 10"
Price:
SOLD
Title: "Lady with Bird and Cat"
*Signed LR
Year: 2020
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Canvas size: 20" x 16"
Price: $1,000
Title: "Lady with Bird and Cat II"
*Signed LL
Year: 2020
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Canvas size: 16" x 20"
Price: $1,000
Title: "Devil's Play"
*Not signed
Circa: 2010
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Paper
Sheet size: 22.5" x 30"
Price:
SOLD
Title: "Portrait of a Girl"
*Signed LL
Circa: 2010
Medium: Original Acrylic Painted Collage on Board
Sheet size: 17.88" x 15.75"
Image size: 13.88" x 13"
Price: $850
Title: "The Apartment Building"
*Signed LL
Year: 2001
Medium: Original White Chalk Drawing over Screenprint
Sheet size: 22.88" x 30.5"
Image size: 21" x 28.38"
Price: $900
Title: "Devil Drive"
*Signed UR
Year: 1998
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Paper
Sheet size: 28.13" x 21.63"
Price: $1,400
Title: "Devil Painting his Models"
*Signed LL
Year: 2001
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Canvas size: 60" x 42"
Price: $5,000
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