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Daniel Hamilton
Artist Dan Boi ArtOlmsted Township Ohio 44138 United States
Bio
Artist Resume:
Daniel (DanBoi) Hamilton is a queer artist in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area. Their artwork seeks to present queer and sexual narratives through painting, writing, and other artistic mediums. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniel was finishing their PhD in medical anthropology and began to explore the limits of artistic categories and boundaries blurring artist, tool, and artwork by incorporating body printmaking into queer world-making replicating queer times and places.
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Artist Statement
DanBoi’s art seeks to portray and explore queer themes of the body and sexuality. As a queer person, DanBoi found conflict between their physical body and sense of gendered self. Through art they initially sought to accept and explore their sexed body through physical printmaking. This then led to an exploration of queer sexuality and themes. The method of using the body as a tool for printmaking allows one to explore the blurring of categories such as art, artist, and tool. It also requires one to explore how a three-dimensional body can be compressed or flattened through various pressings to give a sense of dimension and movement within the works.
DanBoi is currently exploring drawing, photography, and ceramics to expand their artistic explorations.