daniel Baltzer

was born August 28,1971, in Columbus, Ohio. As a child, daniel coped with his humble and often violent circumstances with his imagination. His health issues made him an outsider among his peers and often kept him from attending school. daniel gave great attention to play and used his imagination to contextualize his circumstances into puppet-filled worlds.
During his High School years living near Dayton, Ohio, and working for a local newspaper as a photographer, he observed life through a lens. In the summer before his senior year, daniel was arrested and his perspective changed forever. In the following months, he attended his first visual art class during his senior year in High School. This gave daniel a new way of engaging the world and using his creativity.
In the following years daniel pursued art at Taylor University, Upland, Indiana. Upon graduation he moved back to Columbus, Ohio, and began creating art and teaching art to kids in an urban recreation facility.
His art centered on exploration of new visual vocabulary to express human responses to the world and changes of a postmodern society. His became fascinated with layered imagery both flat and dimensional as well as the human figure as vernacular of an evolving visual vocabulary. daniel had a number of group shows and solo exhibitions in Columbus before moving to New York City in August of 2002, where he now resides and continues to work.

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