ORIGINAL / MODERN / HANDMADE / ABSTRACT / MIXED MEDIA ART / PAINTING

My name is Daniel Tacker and thanks for visiting my shop. I am a 30-something year old that grew up in the mid-south area of Memphis, TN. I have always worked and lived in the South and have had a passion for creating things with my hands for as far back as I can remember. I started drawing comic book characters at about 8-9 years old. I then graduated to my first Polaroid camera where I took a huge interest in photography.

I studied graphic design, water color, painting, film, video, and photography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where I received my BFA in 2002. Shortly after embarking into the digital design and printing world I began to explore my passion for painting. At first it was something that was therapeutic for me, however as my pieces began to sell and I received more and more requests for art works, I decided to become more public with my art. Since that time my style has evolved from just acrylic painting to a collage of different mixed media techniques. I've displayed works at several venues in the Memphis area, had a photograph published, sold commissioned works to 2 hotels, and sold numerous pieces to people across the US.

I sincerely hope that you will take one of my creations home with you. If you see something you really want but feel the price is a bit out of your range, feel free to contact me directly and make an offer. All reasonable offers will be considered!

Take a look around and/or drop me a line. I appreciate your time.

-Daniel Tacker

"Daniel Tacker encompasses the connections between the rural and urban, organic and high-tech, consumer and mass-market driven environments. Through various techniques utilizing graphic design, ink, pen, marker, aerosol and acrylic paint, his art explores the dichotomy of all of these worlds and how they correlate.

Drawing upon his background in graphic design, Tacker employs that field’s traditional illustrative techniques, merging comfortable aesthetics with more stigmatized methods of creating art like graffiti. He uses a cross of abstract forms and organic forms, to create a hybridized vernacular, identifying tensions of media and market driven culture."

-Dixon Gallery, "The City Loves You" Exhibit, 2010, Memphis ,TN