Employing unique tools, such as squeegees and scrapers, artist Dan Treado is able to manipulate solvent and oil paint into luminous, richly surfaced paintings. Treado’s paintings are process works that borrow from sources such as film and photography, physics and biology textbooks, and electron microscope images. His multi-paneled canvas and mylar works explore the relationship between science and art and more recently the way in which we look at film and view a painting.
Bucket of Chuckles, 2023, oil on canvas, 24 x 54 inches
A Mirror Walks Into a Bar, 2023, oil on canvas, 24 x 90 inches
Welcome to Team Hot Sauce, 2023, oil on canvas, 30 x 44 inches
Hot Dog Octopus Writhes Again, 2023, oil on canvas, 24 x 46 inches
Lux Exterior, 2022, oil on Baltic Birch, 30" diameter
On One Hit Wonder Island, 2023, oil on canvas, 30 x 48 inches
Starpower, 2023, oil on mylar, 20 x 14 inches
Jibber Jabber Man, 2023, oil on canvas, 24 x 54 inches
The Giving Tree, 2023, bubblegum, wood, 14 x 14 x 16 inches
DAN TREADO:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 “You are Getting Sleepy”, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
2010 “Requesting Quiet”, Addison/Ripley, Washington DC
2006 “Glue and Gumption”, Addison/Ripley, Washington DC
2004 “Invisible Things”, Addison/Ripley, Washington DC
2002 “Fictions”, Zg Gallery, Inc., Chicago, IL
2001 “Tales from the Patent Office”, Anton Gallery, Washington DC
1999 “Paintings from Paris”, Anton Gallery, Washington DC
1998 “New Paintings”, Anton Gallery, Washington DC
1997 “Paintings”, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1991 Graduate Thesis Show, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1987 Senior Thesis Show, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Alchemical Vessels, Healing Arts, Washington DC
2013 “Anarchistic Abstraction”, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
2012 “Ten Year Anniversary Show”, Zg Gallery, Inc., Chicago, IL
“Click: Space & Time”, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington DC
“All my Friends Are Painters”, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington DC (curated)
2011 “Constructs IX”, Center for Contemporary Art, Portsmouth, VA
“Constructs X”, Space 301, Mobile, AL
“Strictly Painting”, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2010 “It’s a Beautiful Thing”, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington DC
“Constructs VII”, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA
“Constructs VIII”, Center for Contemporary Art, Portsmouth, VA
2009 “Constructs VI”, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2008 “Constructs V”, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA
2007 “City Hall Art Collection”, Wilson Building, Washington DC
2006 “No Representation”, Wharehouse, Washington DC
2003 “Compendium”, Zg Gallery, Inc., Chicago, IL
2002 “12 x 12”, Zg Gallery, Inc., Chicago, IL
2001 “Emotional Attachment”, District Fine Arts, Washington DC
2000 “Shimmer”, Signal 66, Washington DC
“The Trinity (Desire, Memory, Sin)”, film/video installation curated by James Browne, Galapagos Art, Brooklyn, NY
“Traces”, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD
1999 “WPA/Corcoran Auction Exhibition”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Art-O-Matic, The Manhattan Laundry, Washington DC
1998 “Strictly Painting II”, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
“Water”, Anton Gallery, Washington DC
“WPA/Corcoran Auction Exhibition”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
1997 “First Annual Alumni Exhibition”, Georgetown University, Washington
“Art as Investments, Investments as Art”, East 49th Street, NY, NY
“Signal 66”, Blagden Alley Art Space, Washington DC
“Surface Knowledge”, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
“Verticals”, Anton Gallery, Washington DC
“Grant Finalists Exhibition”, DC Commission on the Arts and, Humanities, Washington DC
1996 “Bansai Ikkei”, Anton Gallery, Washington DC
“The Sublime Landscape”, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
“Exposure”, Anton Gallery, Washington DC
“1480 Squares”, DCAC, Washington DC
1992 Skowhegan Scholarship Candidates Group Show, Pratt Institute,Brooklyn, NY
Pratt MFA Candidates Group Exhibition, curated by Jay Gorney, Puck Building, NY, NY
1988 Georgetown University Fine Arts Kreeger Competition, Washington DC
1987 Georgetown University Fine Arts Kreeger Competition, Washington DC
Two Person Exhibition, Neuhause Collection, Washington DC
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
1998 Cite’ Internationale des Arts, residency fellowship, Paris, France
1992 Skowhegan Scholarship Award, residency award, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1988 First Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Kreeger Competition, Georgetown University
Faculty Purchase Prize, Georgetown University
1987 First Prize for Painting and Printmaking, Kreeger Competition, Georgetown University
EDUCATION
MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 1992
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1992
BA, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 1988
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
The Washington Post, “In the Galleries” February 19, 2016, Mark Jenkins
DC Modern Luxury, “Art Hypnotic”, April 2016, Holly Mazar-Fox
Photoweenie, “All My Friends Are Prizefighters”, June 2014
The Washington City Paper, “Click: Space and Time”, June 2012
The Washington Post, “Panels for Discussion”, September 30, 2006
The Washington Post, “Waxing Familiar”, June 17, 2004
The Washington Post Sunday Magazine, “The Collectors”, October 10, 2001
The Washington Review, “Tales From the Patent Office”, October/November, 2001
The Washington Post, “Painting Between the Lines: Treado at Anton Gallery”, June 21, 2001
The Washington City Paper, “Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear”, February 25, 2000
New American Painting, May 2000
The Washington City Paper, “Another Day Older”, June 9, 2000
The Washington Times, “Art-O-Matic”, June 11, 1999
KOAN, “Must See . . .”, June, 1998
