Sid Daniels Painter Canada

Painter Canada
Sid Daniels is a contemporary figurative and abstract, geometric painter and illustrator who lives and works in Miami Beach, Florida.  A native of Toronto, Canada, his colorful and inventive paintings pay homage to the heyday of the Art Deco Era.  His distinctive personal style emanates a musical joy and vibrancy that is achieved with a sense of humor and style, with influences coming from the Golden Age of Hollywood’s movie musicals of the ’40s and ’50s.Sid Daniels works in three distinctive styles, figurative, abstract/geometric, and fashion illustration imagery.  He works on paper with colored pencil, gouache and markers, and his paintings in acrylic on canvas are achieved with detailed lines, brilliant saturated color, and the feeling of watching a theatrical performance, are all brought to life with stand alone architectural works and with his paintings of whimsical and fashionable women in high heels.  As the artist explains, “I am a choreographer and I welcome you to join me in my musical extravaganza on stage.”After graduating from the Ontario College of Art, he relocated to New York City  designing murals and department store installations for Fiorucci NYC, Marshall Field Chicago, The Holiday Inn, Zanzibar Nightclub, The Crown Plaza Hotel, ‘Las Paras’ Caribbean Restaurant in Yokohama, Japan and in 1982 his painting ‘La Mode’, was featured in the motion picture ’Tootsie’.   He designed album covers, and posters for CBS International, Arista and GRP Records, Nescafe Coffee, The Design Industries Fights Aids, and the Ann Taylor Shopping Bag.  Daniels relocated to Miami Beach, Florida in 1997, creating work for Art in Public Spaces’ ‘Flamingos on the Beach’, the Miami Beach Festival of the Arts poster, and the Byron Carlyle mural in 2004.   He designed the commemorative poster for the 1992 United States Ballroom Championships, held at the Fontainebleau Hotel and work for Art in Public Spaces, Caribbean Cruise Lines, Nescafe Coffee and First Night Miami Beach.  Shows include the Sol Gallery, Art Basel’s Spectrum and Aqua Art Fairs in 2017 and 2018, and “Life is Art”, a show entirely dedicated to music, curated by Sebastien Laboureau at the Sagamore Hotel in 2019.   Daniels’ paintings and illustrations are published in ‘The Great Big Book of Fashion Illustration’ and ‘101 Contemporary Artists’ to name a few.
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