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Dan Hermes, born 1970, is an internationally recognized artist, curator, composer, and founder of Dan Hermes Fine Art.

 

 
 
 

moving digital paintings


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"Dan Hermes has ingeniously incorporated the tools of a new millennium to pioneer a new medium of visual art."
- Metronome Magazine

 

Dan Hermes, born 1970, is an internationally recognized audiovisual artist combining visual design, music, and technology into a new form of art: moving digital paintings.

Moving digital paintings are set to his music and designed for display on framed, flat screen televisions. In 2008, his work The Violinist was awarded by the 12th Annual IIDA/Hospitality Design Magazine Product Design Competition as winner in the artwork category. Recent digital paintings include adaptations of oil paintings by internationally recognized painter Maggie Siner and Scott Cahaly. Recent exhibitions include the Hospitality Design Expo 2008 in Las Vegas, Festival Der Nationen in Austria, Athens Video Art Festival, and the Boston Design Center.

As composer and pianist, his debut CD, “Hermes Orchestra: Live”, aired on National Public Radio and in Europe in 2004. Mr. Hermes scored six films for the Boston-based “Midnight Shorts” project. He was sound editor on NYC-shot short film “Malefactor”, which screened at the Pawtucket Film Festival in 2003. Commissions include Suite for Cello, Flute, Piano and Synthesizer for the Essex Chamber Music Players. For composer Mark Perreault, Mr. Hermes produced a CD of the Newton Symphony Orchestra entitled “The Testing LP”. Mr. Hermes DJed a rap battle for T-Nice Records in Waltham, MA. He produced, arranged, and engineered pop, rock, soul, folk, and industrial dance music. Mr. Hermes performs solo piano concerts, most recently at the Zeitgeist Gallery, Tremont Theatre, and at the Essex Chamber Music Players Piano-thon. He is author of the workbook series "Classigroov: Modern Improvisation for the Classical Musician" and has taught his method at the Boston Conservatory.

Mr. Hermes studied computer science, classical composition, and piano performance at the College of William and Mary. Jazz composition, improvisation, music production, recording, and engineering studies at Shenandoah Conservatory and the Berklee College of Music. Performance study with Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, and Stephen Drury. ASCAP has awarded Mr. Hermes an Artists Grant in 2004, 2005, and 2006. He has authored art reviews recently for Media-N, the online journal for the New Media Caucus, and the Computer Music Journal(MIT Press).

Self-trained as a visual artist, Mr. Hermes devoted years to the study of masters such as Van Gogh, Degas, and Daumier. His influences range from Jackson Pollock, DeKooning, Milton Resnick, and Picasso, to video artists such as Bill Viola. His work continues the lineage of the Abstract Expressionists and French Impressionists in a 21st century medium: moving digital paintings set to music.

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Maggie Siner
American artist Maggie Siner paints exclusively from life. In this way she directly confronts her subjects, sensing their three-dimensionality, their particular light and their potential movement. Born in 1951, in Rhode Island, Siner studied painting at Boston University and was a student of Robert D'Arista at American University before moving to Europe. She has lived for extended periods in France and The People's Republic of China. Her paintings are in hundreds of private collections around the world. She has been a visiting professor at Xiamen University in China, artist in residence at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Dean of the Washington Studio School, on the faculty of l'Institute d'Université Américaines and the Lacoste School of Art in France.

Scott Cahaly
Working in a semi-abstract symbolist language, Scott Cahaly draws heavily on his background as a sculptor. Through physical deconstruction and stained-glass shapes and color juxtapositions, his paintings explore “the metaphysical, the transcendent, and a sense of timelessness and mystery”. Cahaly studied painting at the University of Vermont and the School of the Museum of Fine Art. He currently teaches sculpture at the Decordova Museum School in Lincoln, Massachusetts.