DANIEL WADE BARRETT • RPAC Resident Artist
(Above) It Is All a Blur An implosion of color and structure can be hard to distinguish from an explosion of the same. (Right) Interiorities The interior of a soul can call to mind the dark tangle of a dense forest.
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D
aniel Wade Barrett, Resident Artist at RPAC Art Center, paints and sculpts neither to express his feelings nor to share his perceptions of the world with others; rather, to engage in so-called artistic activities in order to revise his own comprehension of objects. Thus, he paints, not to record what he sees but to change it; to understand differently his prior conceptions of the true, the real, and the imaginary. Dan seeks to generate new visions and thoughts by replacing and/or updating his previous ones—whether internal or external (which can be indistinguishable). He works in order to comprehend the life world, not because he already does. In addition to being a Resident Artist, Dan is an Exhibiting Member at Rowayton Arts Center, and has exhibited in numerous juried shows in the region. Dan is currently Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology at Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT. His research interests include suspicion, persuasion, social influence, and cross-cultural psychology.
