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The Shape of Enough
$10,200.00
- Title: The Shape of Enough
- Artist: Danny Gordo
- Medium: oil on aluminum
- Year: 2026
- Size: 40 x 30 inch (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Artist Statement:
Very few of us decide for ourselves what makes us worthy of love. We inherit those ideas slowly. They take shape through expectations and the subtle messages we absorb from the world around us. By the time we begin questioning them, they often feel like they were ours all along.
Worth becomes conditional before we ever realize we’ve accepted the bargain. We learn to believe that acceptance waits for us on the other side of achievement, approval, or becoming someone different from who we are today. The finish line keeps moving, and every version of ourselves feels valuable only until another expectation takes its place. After enough years, those expectations stop feeling external. They simply become the way we see ourselves.
Details: This original artwork is a one-of-a-kind oil painting on a 40 x 30 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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