I have spent the greater part of my life making "art inside the cracks," looking to translate life's critical and more mundane moments into images. "Art inside the cracks" represents a number of themes often alluded to through key words and bits of phrases incorporated into the images. The use of language, both French and English, serves as a graphic element and also helps me label the images and group prints thematically.The prints I've included in the gallery pages are samples from single monotypes to series of prints.

I was born at the beginning of the German occupation in Genoble, France, January, 1941. My earliest memories are of post war Europe where I spent my first twelve years growing up in Paris with brief periods living in Switzerland and in Germany. I immigrated to the United States in 1952 and spent the next twenty years in New York City.

New York is where I first learned about America, its language and its people, and where I began to develop my own imagery. I first tried to translate my experiences and ideas through drawings and a mix media approach working on paper. In 1958 I attended Parson's School of Design to study graphics. In 1960 I returned to Paris and spend a year at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. I came back to New York—ended my studies and continued to explore various image making techniques. In 1971, I left New York to move to San Francisco. I turned to printmaking in the 1980s first trying a number of techniques but quickly settling on the monotype. I am also incorporating photo transfers, building up the composition and design, and using the transfers as another marking on the plate.

The images and themes I work with draw on where I came from, where I've lived, the cultures I grew up with, the languages I heard and spoke, the ideas and the politics of the various communities I have chosen as my own. To see more of my prints and/or to get prices on framed and unframed pieces, please contact me through email daniele@artselves.com.