Our Exhibiting Artists

Sid Daniels

The iconic images, represented in my paintings, are signatures to a style I coin "Latin Deco." This idea had its early beginnings during the 1960's, while growing up in Toronto, Canada. During that time, I worked part time at my uncle's shoe store, and this is where I believe, my infatuation with shoes and nostalgia began. I developed a love affair with the Big Band Swing Era, famous for their "Big Band" orchestras and vocalists. Some of whom I admired were Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Helen Forest and Ella Fitzgerald, together with an endless parade of vintage Cuban/Brazilian performers, like Desi Arnaz and Xavier Cugat. I focussed my attention on fashion, and would later discover, it would become an architectural element in future works of art. I saturated my brain with endless potpourri of visual memorabilia from George Hurrell's black and white photography, depicting glamorous movie stars like Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, draped in long sweeping gowns, to a wealth of movies and musicals I had yet to discover, like MGM's technicolor movie music extravaganza, The Gang's All Here, circa 1942, which starred Carmen Miranda as (the Brazilian Bombshell). The pairing of Brazilian conga with Benny Goodman's Swing Orchestra, against a New York City backdrop, for me seemed breathtakingly surreal.

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