Portrait of Dan Conrad
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Dan Conrad

Music / Sound, Painting, Performance, Visual / Media

About the Artist

My name is Daniel Conrad. My principle arts interest is color-changing light art, an art-form that uses LED lights and barriers behind a diffusing screen with a digital controller. I am also a painter, MFA from MICA.   I have studied color theories, and color perception. In 1972 I made a color-performance instrument, the “chromaccord”, using colored lights and dimmers, and performed on it in San Francisco. Moving back East, I performed in Baltimore and other locations, including the Orpheum Cinema (Baltimore), Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), and Diapason Sound Gallery (NYC).   In 2002 I started to make autonomous color-changing art that I call “light-painting”. As technological issues get solved, the artistry of the medium has become more apparent to me. Exhibits of these light-paintings include “Living with Art” at Silo Point Penthouse in Baltimore (2015), “Illuminati” at Red Emma's Cafe (in conjunction with Artscape - 2019), and “Radiant Material” at Kohl Gallery, Washington College, Chestertown, MD (2022).  

Dan Conrad website CHROMACCORD ARTS

Featured Work

Photos

"Relevator" is a light-painting made with RGB LED strips behind a diffusing screen. The image shows three color-states as the colors slowly change. Due to the large number of possibilities, color combinations are unlikely to repeat.
"H'arp" is a light-painting made with RGB LED strips behind a diffusing screen. The image shows three color-states as the colors slowly change. Due to the large number of possibilities, color combinations are unlikely to repeat.
"Urban Breeze" is a light-painting made with RGB LED strips behind a diffusing acrylic screen. The image shows the cabinet with the luminous screen on front. User controls on the side are a knob for brightness, a knob for speed of color-change, and on-off switch. Colors of the image change slowly and continuously.
"Reddish Glance" is a light-painting made with RGB LED strips behind a diffusing acrylic screen. The image shows three successive color-states. Colors of the image change slowly and continuously. User controls on the side are a knob for brightness, a knob for speed of color-change, and on-off switch.
"The Window" is a light-painting made with RGB LED strips behind a diffusing acrylic screen. The image shows five successive color-states. Colors of the image change slowly and continuously. User controls on the side are a knob for brightness, a knob for speed of color-change, and on-off switch.