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Artist Danyl Cook was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic and incorporates themes and stories from his life into his work
Artist Danyl Cook was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic and incorporates themes and stories from his life into his work
Danyl D. Cook
Artist’s Statement
A seven-year-old me stands with brightly colored chalks under arm, staring up the path to our small town library.
I scrape my bare knees on the sandstone as I wear down my favorite sea blues and fresh greens so bright they fail to fade even as my body drops a shaded silhouette between them and the sun. Soon enough the path is full of bright scenes like those Bert would draw for Mary Poppins and her young charges.
I stand
I close my eyes
I hold my breath and count to three and jump.
A scowling librarian bulls through the glass front door to hiss and scream and chase me away in a flail of laughter down the street.
I run home to my grandmother
—
with whom I live
—
only to be chastised again for tracking the colored remnants of my work across her dark-patterned rugs. I run upstairs to my room and stare out the window where the arrival of rain has blurred the pane, the library and my drawings beyond.
I return after the librarians have gone home and the rain has stopped to sit cross-legged before my dampened dreams, chin cupped in one hand, the other rubbing my bruised knees and I wonder why I can’t jump into drawings as a mere chimney sweep could.
Today I dream in different places. Denver’s parks. The islands of Cyprus, Cuba and
Hispaniola. The rain comes at times to chase me away from my favorite Cheesman Park trees just as Bert and Mary and the children were chased from their favorite place. But that’s OK. My dreams still continue. And I still count to three and jump.
Danyl Cook grew up in rural New York state and has lived in Denver since 1994. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Business Studies from SUNY Buffalo and spent many years as a professional photographer and writer. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic and incorporates themes and stories from his life into his work. He has served as docent for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo and for El Museo de Las Americas, Denver. He also served as voluntary chair of the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Committee for Orleans County.
Exhibits
1998, Juried show, Edge Gallery, Denver
1999, Juried show “Black & White,” Flux Gallery, Denver
March 1999,
Solo show, Metro Frame Works Gallery, Denver
December 2000,
Group show, Metro Frame Works Gallery
March 2001,
Solo show “Bert’s Dreams,” Metro Frame Works Gallery
July 2001, Group show, Common Groundworks Gallery, Denver
September 2001, Solo show “Otium Drawings,” Common Groundworks Gallery
December 2001, Group show, Metro Frame Works Gallery
December 2001, Group show, Common Groundworks Gallery
December 2001 to present,
works on display at Cuba, Cuba restaurant, Denver
February 2002, One man show, Coffee on the Lowell, Denver
April 2002, One man show “Noche de Cuba,” Metro Frame Works Gallery
August 2002, Jurors' Award for "Hot" exhibition, Metro Frame Works Gallery
April 2003, solo show, "Nature's Breath," Metro Frame Works, Denver
May 2003, Celebrate Colorado Artists Festival, Pavilions, Denver
June 2003, "La Strada dell'Arte" Larimer Square, Denver
October 2003, Solo Show Tattered Cover "Fourth Story" Restaurant, Denver
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