ABOUT ME
A STORY TO TELL
Daniel Ney is a Sculptor born and raised throughout the rolling plains of Kansas. Forming the foundation, his values have provided an essential life compass as he navigated two military deployments throughout his college career. He began his journey as an architect, then as a student in Drawing. Lacking the depth, he gravitated towards sculpture and cast bronze, iron aluminum and stone. The casting process allows him to explore his personal narrative through the repetition and labor involved in fine art metal casting. Via his life experiences, Daniel seeks to retrieve and reflect on the identities he has most intimately associated with.
EXHIBITITIONS
Daniel's work has been shown at the 2015 Nebraska National Undergraduate Juried Art Exhibition Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, William T. Kemper Art Gallery, Mingenback Art Gallery, Mark A. Chapman Gallery and was selected for the Annual Juried Commerce Bank Scholarship Show. Daniel received his BFA in Sculpture and Leadership Studies Minor from Kansas State University in 2015. He currently lives in Kansas City creating both private and public commissions as well as developing his own work.
THERAPEUTIC BRONZE
"I am a native Kansan who seeks to explore my identities as a Soldier, Artist and a Dreamer. Raised in the kind of family America was founded (the hardworking and freedom loving) my values are central to my process. While I was in college, I was deployed to Iraq twice and have sought to find clarity and healing by categorizing myself though those unique experiences.
The process of bronze casting as a therapeutic outlet, establishes the permanence of my experience implied by the strength of the material. The regiment of the process alone responds to a mind-numbing and mechanical past. Like the comfort in the hum of a diesel motor, the mile markers of the casting process provide parameters for the freedom to create. I delve into myself and then extrude out the form that describes the state I have honestly and consciously been considering. I think it's important to be aware of the pulse of life - the freedom of the whole thing. It's within that pulse I seek to describe my pleasure and pain, my wisdom and adventure."