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"Love and Loss Entwined"
$3,100.00
- Title: Love And Loss Entwined
- Artist: Danny Schreiber
- Medium: oil on wood panel
- Year: 2025
- Size: 18 x 24 inch (45.72 x 60.96 cm)
Root and flesh merge, one no longer separable from the other. This male figure painting is a meditation on emotional inheritance and how the human form holds both memory and myth. The classical anatomy alludes to Greco-Roman ideals, but here those ideals are fractured. This is not a statue meant to endure as a symbol, but a living body frozen mid-process. The trunk suggests not just grounding, but entanglement, lineage, pain, and resilience that’s grown wild in the dark. The gesture of the torso hints at an internal twist, a tension between turning inward and reaching outward.
The surface treatment is intentionally uneven. Skin is modeled with care, yet background elements pixelate or dissolve, breaking the realism and inviting symbolic interpretation. The squared-off limbs reference the unfinished or abandoned sculptures of antiquity—those objects that were once whole, then broken, and now venerated in their fragmented form.
This painting asks: What are we still carrying that was given in love, but rooted in control? What shapes us without our consent? And what part of that inheritance might still be reclaimed, transmuted, or re-rooted in strength? It’s not simply a portrait of damage, but of endurance. Of beauty caught in the act of becoming.
Rendered in oil with warm, natural tones and subtle textures, the painting blends realism and symbolism in a way that invites reflection. Like many works in the Oracles series, it leaves space for the viewer’s narrative to emerge.
Details: This original artwork is a one-of-a-kind oil painting on an 18 x 24 inch wood panel framed in an ornate dark wood frame that measures 24 x 30 inches around the outside.
Artist: Danny Schreiber
Danny Schreiber is a figurative painter, tattoo artist, musician, and founder of The Copper Wolf Tattoo Studio and Art Gallery based in Tumwater, WA. He holds a BFA in Illustration from the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and is the 2025 Robert B. McMillen Foundation MAC Award winner. Using oil and graphite, Danny blends classical techniques with contemporary symbolism to craft visually intricate and emotionally resonant images that invoke contemplation and reflection in viewers.
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About the Oracles collection
Oracles is a body of work that explores how identity is shaped and fragmented through systems of power, and can be reclaimed through reflection and courage. These paintings are not literal narratives but emotional reliquaries—portraits of memory, inheritance, and transformation. At their core, they ask: what parts of ourselves were we told to sever in order to belong? And what might still grow back?
Figures reference classical Greek sculpture, a nod to the Western ideals and philosophical roots that continue to shape cultural norms. However, the compositions fracture those ideals. Torsos are incomplete, objects hover, and backgrounds dissolve into voids. Each image holds tension between realism and surrealism, control and vulnerability, flesh and myth.
The Oracles are not simply about harm or conformity. They are about complexity. About what it means to live with contradiction. Each piece holds space for both the pain of what was lost and the potential of what remains. Rather than offering resolution, the paintings function as quiet questions. What was cut away? What was planted? What still pulses, even beneath the surface?
This series emerged from my own lived experience, but it extends outward, toward anyone who has felt shaped by expectation, silenced by care, or fractured by love. It is an offering, not of answers, but of witness.
Oracles invites viewers to pause and reflect. To see not just the figures on the panel, but their internal landscapes mirrored back to them. In that space between image and viewer, something else becomes possible: empathy, recognition, and maybe even regeneration.
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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