Discipline: Visual Art

Daniel Berlin

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Kerhonkson, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987
More: www.danielberlin.net
Daniel Berlin is primarily a painter, but also makes prints. A new book on his painting Swallowing the Sun was published by Moeller Fine Arts and includes poems and a conversation with the L.A. art critic Rosetta Brooks. Berlin moved into a loft on the East River in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in 1984 and lived there for 18 years. He received his B.A. in fine art and a B.A. in psychology from Illinois State University in 1977. He later received a M.F.A in painting from the University of Colorado in 1983. He taught and continued to teach Buddhadharma and art. He became the student of Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1977, which significantly informed his views. Berlin studied and witnessed an influential group of poets, musicians, and dancers performing at Naropa Institute such as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, Ann Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Ron Padget, Barbara Dilley, Colin Walcot & Oregon, etc.

Studios

New Hampshire

Daniel Berlin worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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