Dan Schimmel is a painter and printmaker who works in Philadelphia and New York. Schimmel’s work focuses on the wandering line as it creates shapes and contours across the painted surface. The artist’s new work utilizes blue and white tape as a filter to view other paintings that lie beneath.

iCity (2011) captures the post-industrial city from multiple perspectives, coupled with a sense of boundlessness. A similar overall blue appearance is seen in C.Mariner(2011) known as Cosmos Mariner, conveying a seafaring expedition. Punctuated with several figurative illustrations, the space of this piece captures an array of earthly and celestial currents.

Dan Schimmel, BFA (1989) University of California, Berkeley, MA (1996) and MFA (1997) University of Iowa, is an artist based in Philadelphia and born in Columbia, Missouri. He has exhibited work at the Delaware Art Museum, Susquehanna Art Museum, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Allentown Art Museum and State Museum of Pennsylvania. He has had five solo exhibitions. In June 2011 the LGTripp Gallery in Philadelphia exhibited Tape & Paint, a solo show of new work by the artist.

For ten years he was Director and Curator of Exhibitions at the Esther Klein Gallery and from 2010-2013 he was the founding Director of Breadboard, an award-winning arts, science and technology program at the University City Science Center. Schimmel lives in an 1880’s farmhouse with his partner Mimi Sheller and two daughters. His backyard studio is surrounded by extensive woodland and gardens that he grows and gathers materials and inspiration from as part of his art practice.