JEREMY ARTHUR DAHNKE

last name pronounced “Danky”

B / 1980 in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Location / lives with wife and two children in Los Angeles, California

Education /

BA Fine Arts / BA Philosophy / University of Colorado, Boulder

AOS Massage Therapy / Boulder College of Massage Therapy

Fields / Value Theory / Axiology / Aesthetics / Ethics / Integral Theory / Mereology / Somatics

Style / Liminal Art / Smart Art / Enterprise Art / Screengaze / Afrogaze

Themes/Motifs / hyperobjects / 16 square grid / the creative warrior / violent beauty / the internal dictator / tech-less innovation / somatic-self / the adaptively-agile individual

Mediums /

Drawing /

Staedtler Mars Carbon lead 0.5mm / Canson vellum / Artograph LightPad 930 / Sony α7R II camera / Adobe Lightroom / Adobe Photoshop / Procreate / Epson SureColor P800 printer / Red River Paper printing papers / Colorplan paper / Stonehenge paper / Bockingford paper/ Prismacolor Premier colored pencil / Arches paper

Painting /

ACM panel 6mm (honeycomb core) / XIM UMA Acrylic Bonder and Primer/Sealer / Golden Acrylic Gesso / Golden Acrylic Ground for Pastel / Golden 0003560-5 Acrylic Black Gesso / M. Graham Artists’ Oil Color / Rublev Conservar Acrylic Varnish (Paraloid B-44) / Gamblin Cold Wax Medium

Other /

TheBrain software / Adobe InDesign / office supplies / home décor / signage

Influences /

Rushmore Four /

da Vinci / Van Gogh / Rothko / Basquiat

Painting /

Rothko / Agnes Martin / Peter Doig / Jennifer Packer / Luc Tuymans / Marlene Dumas / Andrew Cranston / Jordan Casteel / Michael Armitage / James Abbott McNeill Whistler / Van Gogh

Drawing /

da Vinci / Robert Longo / Ashley Wood / Robyn O'Neil / William Kentridge

Style /

Robert Heinecken / Kenturah Davis / Julie Mehretu / Jason Thielke / Ashley Oubré / Hajime Sorayama / tattoo art / Greg Breda / Youngmin Park / Thomas Ruff / Lui Ferreyra / stained glass / X-ray imaging

Concept /

Jonathan Messe / Andrea Zittel / Matthew Barney / Thomas Hirschhorn / Ray Johnson / Robert Heinecken / Julie Mehretu / Thomas Ruff / Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe / Olafur Eliasson / Charles Gaines / Warhol / Jamian Juliano-Villani / Robert Longo / Urs Fischer / Arthur Jafa / Mr. Brainwash

Process /

Robert Heinecken / Mark Bradford / Njideka Akunyili Crosby / Matt Kane / Julie Mehretu / Thomas Ruff

Liminal /

da Vinci / Richard Serra / Arnold Schwarzenegger / Kanye West / Deion Sanders / Robert Longo

Grid /

Agnes Martin / Rashid Johnson / Charles Gaines / Mark Bradford

Enterprise /

Warhol / Kinkade / Shepard Fairey / Walt Disney / Bob Ross

Movements /

Cloisonnism / Synthetism / Futurism / Minimalism / Conceptual Art / Relational Art

Inspiration / Jeremy's artistic practice was originally inspired by drawing cartoon characters and sports figures as a child with his grandmother. Aside from art, his interests in youth were primarily centered around the human mind and body beginning with a keen interest in the sciences and competitive athletics; especially Formal Sciences, Human Biology and American Football. After sustaining a serious sports injury while training for football in his first year at the university, he turned his attention to abstract forms of expression in studying the fields of Philosophy and Fine Arts.

His primary philosophical influences were schools of thought such as: Existentialism, Phenomenology, American Pragmatism, Postmodernism, Metamodernism, and Integral; individual thinkers: Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, J.S. Mill, Merleau-Ponty, Lyotard, Deleuze, Alva Noe, Ken Wilber, and Stuart Kauffman; and philosophical subjects: Meta-Ethics/Value Theory, Aesthetics, Ethics, and Epistemology. In 2001 studying under professor Michael Huemer, Jeremy was introduced to Voluntaryist/Anarcho-capitalist/Libertarian theories of Social/Political Philosophy; this would later pique an interest in Crypto Anarchy, Agorism and the esoteric Libertarian and creativity theories of John David Garcia.

The experience of growing up bi-racial (black & white) and in a multi-cultural household (German-American & Cameroonian) also had significant influence on Jeremy’s political leanings. Both personal encounters with racial hostilities and from studying the unscrupulous nature of the American criminal justice system, engendered interest in the activism of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, Malcolm X and the sports Sociologist Harry Edwards.

In 2012 Jeremy refocused his attention back to the human body through a series of both formal and private studies in Bodywork, Nutrition and Biomechanics. He favors a Somatic approach to Bodywork influenced by Thomas Hanna and Peter Levine; a Biohacking/Somatic approach to nutrition; and a self-empowered, educational approach to Biomechanics à la Kelly Starrett’s TRS.

other interests: music (listening & recording), film (watching & analysis), sunbathing, hanging out at coffee shops, anaerobic/aerobic exercise, Bitcoin/opensource, digital privacy, anime & comics, social gatherings.