Daniel Edlen (born November 18, 1975) is a

visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...

known for creating vinyl art, portraits of musicians and entertainers hand-painted on their

vinyl record A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English) or a vinyl record (for later varieties only) is an analog signal, analog sound Recording medium, storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, ...

s. Raised in Pacific Palisades, CA, he attended the Brentwood Art Center, learning to draw and paint. He also studied

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. After moving to

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, Daniel Edlen began creating his vinyl art using a modified

pointillistic Pointillism (, ) is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term "Pointillism" ...

technique. White

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dabbed on creates an image "a bit like a black and white newspaper photo in reverse". It is noted that painting the recycled records is "a meticulous process that... often translates to one hyper-realistic rendering per month". It's also been remarked that it is "a truly unique message-meets-medium portraiture technique, using the physical canvas of artists’ talent — their records — to paint portraits of them in white acrylic." Notable works have been shown by

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, commissioned by the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood and

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, as well as done for the

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Reggae Archives. Edlen was also commissioned by the David Lynch Foundation to paint a series of pieces, which were signed by the artists like

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and

Iggy Pop James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, songwriter, actor and radio broadcaster. He was the vocalist and lyricist of proto-punk band the Stooges, who were formed in 1 ...

to be auctioned to benefit the foundation. In an interview with Phoenix Magazine, Edlen stated his reason for creating his Vinyl Art, "They celebrate the subject and the object, the art and the artifact.”

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External links

brentwood art center homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Edlen, Daniel Living people 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists 1975 births University of California, Los Angeles alumni People from Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles Painters from Los Angeles American male painters