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Adam McDaniel - Fine Artist
Adam McDaniel grew up in Connecticut and New Jersey. He attended New York's Vassar College, winning honors at various festivals for his student film work and receiving the college's academic film & cinematography prize upon graduation. He also wrote and directed a stageplay that had the misfortune of opening the same night as an on-campus Billy Joel concert.
Drawing since an early age, he is largely a self-taught artist with no formal training. While in high school, his artwork won several local and regional art competitions, but when we went to Vassar, he dropped out of studio drawing after the very first day of class. Upon the recommendation of an upperclassman, he turned to theatrical set design as a creative alternative.
McDaniel has gone on to serve as a technical director and set designer for several theatrical stage shows, and as a production designer and cinematographer for independent films and documentaries. Since moving to southern California in late 1996, he has worked with such companies as Ascent Media, Walt Disney Pictures, Big Ticket Television, Revolution Studios, and film school Columbia College Hollywood.
McDaniel does art, illustration, and web design in his free time, and is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Aisling Eye Books.
