I am a surrealist painter who primarily uses surrealist methods and techniques, although I have also done darkist drawings.  I am best known for my entopic graphomanias (drawings using a surrealist method in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots), and have worked with gouache (usually diluted with Coca-Cola or sweat) and pen-and-ink, including invisible ink, cheater’s pen, video spy pen and exploding pen.

Daniel C. Boyer was born in Hancock, in Michigan’s frigid Keweenaw Peninsula, in 1971.  After being named an Honorary Alumnus of The Johns Hopkins University, he graduated with a B.A. in Politics and History from Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts in 1997, after which he studied 2-dimensional Mixed Media at Harvard University.  His visual and invisible drawings, and his paintings, digital artworks and sculptures have been included in eleven North-American solo exhibitions and in over eight hundred group exhibitions on every continent except Antarctica.  He has worked as a teacher of electric toothbrush painting and was an artist in residence demonstrating fumage at the Marquette Arts & Culture Center in Marquette, Michigan.  He has won a number of awards for his painting.

1) The Jalopy Idol (after Crockett Johnson and Tillamook Cheddar) (gouache diluted with Coca-Cola on Arches paper)

2) Television (gouache and red wine stain remover on Arches paper)

3) He Forgot Amy’s Equity and Barbecued Indoors with Activated Charcoal During One Icy Year he Thought Back to the Fourth and Tiled Frontier and the Snowy Winter When the Streets of Portugal Bloom with Oranges and Lemons (gouache diluted with sweat on paper)