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The Costume of Devotion
$7,400.00
- Title: The Costume of Devotion
- Artist: Danny Gordo
- Medium: oil on aluminum
- Year: 2026
- Size: 36 x 24 inch (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Artist Statement:
Most of us spend our lives searching for something larger than ourselves. We want our lives to matter. We want to believe that our suffering has purpose, that our choices carry meaning, and that we're capable of becoming more than we are today. There is nothing misguided about that search. It may be one of the most honest expressions of what it means to be human.
The danger isn't in the longing. It's in how easily longing can be satisfied by appearances. Real transformation asks for patience, humility, and the willingness to remain uncertain while we continue searching. Those are difficult things to live with. Sometimes it's easier to learn the language than to wrestle with the questions, easier to repeat the gestures than to surrender to what they ask of us. The search doesn't disappear. It simply becomes harder to tell whether we're moving toward something greater than ourselves, or learning to feel at home inside a shell of the actual.
Details: This original artwork is a one-of-a-kind oil painting on a 48 x 24 inch aluminum panel framed in an ornate black wood frame.
Artist: Danny Gordo
Danny Gordo is a contemporary figurative painter exploring the relationship between perception, symbolism, and the stories that shape human experience. Drawing from the symbolic tradition, his work unfolds gradually, rewarding sustained attention and leaving room for the viewer's own experience to complete the conversation.
Gordo's work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Art Fair, the Seattle Art Fair, and in solo and group exhibitions across the United States. He is a two-time recipient of the Robert B. McMillen Foundation MAC Award (2025, 2026), a finalist in the Allied Artists of America 112th Annual Exhibition, and has been featured in the Almenara Art Prize Online Exhibition.
Gordo holds a BFA in Illustration from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, graduating summa cum laude. He is the founder of The Copper Wolf Tattoo Studio and Art Gallery in Tumwater, Washington, where he maintains his studio practice while mentoring emerging artists.
Exhibition and acquisition inquiries are welcome.
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About the Echoes collection
We live within an atmosphere of distraction so constant that it begins to feel natural. Attention is siphoned quietly, an inch at a time, until distraction seeps into what should be sacred and the sacred learns to perform instead of simply exist. We reach for the phantasm and call it the Form, mistaking the shadow for the thing casting it.
Echoes is a meditation on what happens when presence gives way to performance, and the most intimate parts of human experience begin to take their shape from forces outside us. The series inhabits the distance between what is genuine and what merely resembles it, asking how much of our inner lives remains our own when we are no longer fully present within them.
please note:
Colors vary from screen to screen and are represented as accurately as possible. The oil paint and glossy, protective varnish creates shimmering textures depending on the angle of the viewer.
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