Website:
www.danavanhorn.com
Solo Exhibitions:
1999 "Watercolor Portraits", Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA
1988 "Local Heroes", Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
1992, 89, 87 Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Recent selected group exhibitions:
1999 "Contemporary American Realist Drawings, The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection", The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Local Color", Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
"Sea: Scene: See: Seen", Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
1995 Group Show, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Recent selected commissions:
1999 Portrait of Alfred Krug, President, Mannesmann Rexroth Corporation,
Allentown, PA
Portrait of Joseph Scheller, Allentown, PA
1998 Portrait of Robert I. Rotberg, former President, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
1997 Portrait of Charles Vest, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1995 Four portraits, Union College, Schenectady, NY
1990 - 91 Mural, "Enthroned Christ with German Saints," (14' x 40"), Holy Ghost
Church, Bethlehem, PA
My students range from inexperienced beginners to more advanced experienced painters. This being the case I try to work with each student individually according to his or her abilities. Each student is encouraged to pursue subject matter and style they feel most comfortable with from portraiture to still life and landscape, in a realistic style or more abstractly. I stress basic principles of color, composition and value, which are applicable to a wide range of approaches. I try to help you find your painting 'voice' and to develop it into a fluent painting language. Demonstration of various principles and techniques will also be part of the class. My classes are designed so that new skill can be learned and already acquired ones can be developed in a relaxed, not-threatening atmosphere.