View From the Nest, Mixed Media, acrylic, gel medium, 36×36

Daniel Finks is a Furniture Designer and Fine Artist living and working in East Haven, Connecticut. Originally from Michigan, he has a BFA in Furniture Design from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI. He has designed and engineered a wide variety of home furnishings that have sold throughout the world. Daniel also has a dual bachelor’s degree in Studio Art and Social-Psychology from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. He has been actively creating, showing and selling his artwork for more than twenty years and has had numerous gallery shows.

Daniel’s mixed media artwork incorporates a fearless use of found objects and natural occurring media, with an unconventional use of typical art materials and an unrestricted, anything goes attitude to create pieces he describes as frantic, prolific, and perceptive. Taking shape in the form of landscapes, treescapes and all-out abstraction, his art is deeply personal or superbly superficial and is often rendered into a state of decomposition. His work is intentionally earthy, imperfect, and variegated, bastardizing typical art process and mediums to create a celebration in the beauty of all things imperfect, incomplete and ostensibly crude.

Daniel’s work is a disconnect from the normalcy of pop culture and instead contemplates the beauty in entropy, celebrating the fundamental uncontrollability of nature in the environment. His work is currently exhibited at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, CT.