This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  "Daniel Blagg doesn't travel far to find material. "Many of my subjects are within a few blocks of my studio," says the artist, whose warehouse workspace is in an industrial district in Fort Worth, TX. "I am drawn to neglected areas that are in a state of limbo. For me, they have an element of something that's very ordinary, very American." The Texas native uses techniques of photorealism to depict symbols of urban blight: abandoned buildings, derelict gas stations, and empty streets. Blagg tries to elevate the mundane. Blagg's daytime scenes drawn. The imagery that Blagg uses is so familiar that one cannot help but be drawn in by these everyday scenes." (Kidder Smith Gallery)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Tex.
Tyler Art Museum, Tyler, Tex.
Deloitte & Touche, Washington, D.C.
Bank One, Fort Worth, Tex.
Texas Instruments, Plano, Tex.
Southwestern Bell, Dallas, Tex.
GTE, Irving, Tex.
Shell Oil, Houston, Tex.
Exxon, Dallas, Tx.
Grand Bank, Dallas, Tex.
Arthur Young Co., Dallas, Tex.
First City, Dallas, Tex.
Belo Broadcasting, Dallas, Tex.
FRK Properties, San Antonio, Tex.
Fluor Corporation, Houston, Tex.
M Bank, Austin, Tex.
Brad Corbett, Dallas & Arlington, Tex., Tokyo, Jap.
Roger Horchow, Dallas, Tex.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Art Forum, June, 2005.
Art in America, June, 2005.
Kevin Brochard, Artlies, volume 42.
Jim Edwards and Bill Otton, Urbanscapes.
Gaile Robinson, "Public Art", Fort Worth Star-Telegram, June, 2005.
Mike Daniel, "Quick Sketch Landscape", Dallas Morning News.
Daniel Blagg, Urbanscape Paintings at the Art Museum of South Texas, South Texas Institute for the Arts.
Amy Sorter, "Art & Soul", Woodstock Times, August, 2000.
Janet Tyson, "Points of Beauty", Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Andrew Morton, "Twin Painters Take Different Paths", Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Janet Tyson, "Inspiration Found in Parking Lots", Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Anthony Mariani, "Best of the Plex", Fort Worth Weekly.
"Real and Surreal", Texas Homes.
Sources:
DFN Gallery, New York
Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston MA
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