Marfa

Daniel DeRosato is a multidisciplinary artist and designer with over 20 years experience. He was born and raised in Pennsylvania, completed art college in the Boston area and worked as a designer in Philadelphia for five years, before relocating to Florida where he now resides. Most of his fine art is created digitally, where he intentionally breaks down the structure of images, sound and text. He has learned how to work within the instability of this process, and will translate files through different formats to explore the beautiful, unpredictable outcomes of corruption in pattern and color.

He also applies these methods to creative writing, video editing, web design, and performance art, treating social media as another format to explore as an art platform. His practice extends well beyond the computer, pushing the boundaries of his mediums by incorporating glitch techniques into traditional practices like printmaking, letterpress, bookbinding, screen printing, sculpture, and lithography. He makes connections and reflections to outsider art, folk art, art brut, prison art, therapeutic art, process art, pop art, generative art, psychedelic art, kitsch art, dadaism and the surreal, abstract symbolism… he relates the methods of glitch as a way to rethink intentional outsider art and Dadaism.

Consider the profound sadness of a message that never was received, the unique feeling of unintended isolation… Daniel's art processes are a way for him to explore themes similar to failure and loss, intention versus interpretation, global instability, creation amid uncertainty, ideas born without context, and fragmented origins.

While his personal art focuses on this introspective exploration, his client work is dedicated to the opposite – using his vision to bring creative life to all sizes of businesses, bands, schools, and organizations. He specializes in everything from logos to large-scale art for tech firms. Areas of experience include printed apparel, merch for bands, promotional materials, business cards and menus, websites and branding, outside signage for companies, or marketing and publicity materials, like key art and creative assets for a theater. His empathy and passion to exceed expectations drives a core mission to work with a client's ideas to go beyond what they thought possible.