Wartortle Capăt Art and the Center for Contemporary

and the Center for Contemporary Culture Barcelona (CCCB)

Oil on canvas

sharing the shell and breathing life in through the cracks

Jessica uses illustrative paintings to explore the dark romantic space where living in a feminine body overlaps with the expectations of a womxn in this society

he learned what to paint by studying books on Asian history

Wartortle Capăt Art and the Center for ContemporaryDetails About Oil on panel 12 x 12 in. 2022 Daniel J Valadez was born in Santa Clara, California. He grew up in Visalia, central California, where the summers were scorching and the winters left the grass frozen. He made his return years later to the Bay Area. Daniel moved to San Francisco in the spring of 2005 and began studying at the Academy of Art University. After a rigorous three years, in 2008 he received a BFA in Illustration. The years that