Danny Roberts was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has worked for the past ten years in the commercial arts field and the past five years in the fine arts field.
In 2004, his first fine arts solo show was The Injured, at The Arts Factory in Las Vegas. The show included fourteen of his pastels. He followed The Injured seven months later, in 2005 with twenty new oil paintings that were unveiled at the Arts Factory, in a show called Externalities.
Over the past four years he has produced two to three shows a year showing in Las Vegas, Portland, Sacramento, Phoenix and Palm Springs. He currently has an artist-owned gallery upstairs at the Arts Factory which will be transitioning from selling originals to his highly collectable prints and giclées, and soon, other fine artists.
He is currently being represented in Las Vegas by the Brett Wesley Gallery undergoing renovations and temporarily staging shows in the Penthouse at the Newport Lofts.
Danny Roberts figurative works often mix surreal and realistic elements. Metaphors that repeat are dramatic movement, obscured vision and the cultural tools and weapons used for and against modern life. He reaches deeply into the collective unconscious to capture in oils the human spirit at a moment of indecision. His subjects explore both internal and external epiphany, from a personal crisis of faith to a choice that could crumble a nation. Sometimes hopeful, sometimes heartbreaking, his amazing works explore the depths of every mans conflicting relationships with culture, nature and responsibility.
Whether in computer graphics, graphite, charcoal, water colors, pastels or oils, his skills are primarily self-taught. In style, subject matter and inspiration, Danny Roberts is building a reputation for refined skill and disturbing beauty. He currently lives in Las Vegas with his wife, Leigh McCormick Roberts.
