Dkdesignfineart Exhibits
Artist and Designer: Derrick Grant
Favorite Art-pieces
JUNE 2015 - 2022
Here is a selection of my favorite mixed-media art pieces, some of which have been sold or donated. Each artwork begins digitally, either painted directly on the screen or crafted using 3D programs such as Vue, Poser, and Daz3D. I also incorporate tools like Painter, Photoshop, Illustrator, and other graphic design software. Once the digital image is complete, I transfer it to canvas and enhance it further with acrylic paint, adding depth, texture, and a three-dimensional quality to the final piece.
DERRICK GRANT
INTRODUCTION OF AI- ASSISTED ARTWORK
JUNE 2023 - NOV 2024
I do believe that the future of AI in art can be very important, and an essential tool for furthering the creative process. Used in the correct way, I believe computers could assist us to create images or ideas that are floating around in our minds and bring them to life. I'm currently in the process of recreating some of the art pieces I've formulated and digitally painted over the last 20 years. Using these artworks, I have asked Chat-GPT to either reimagine or replicate them in various painting styles. After several tries, much direction and corrections given to ChatGPT, the results come close to what I would like to see. I then process these images in Photoshop or other digital software programs (where one is able to digitally paint) to create the final image see below the process of creating these graphically designed artworks.
Recent Exhibition: African Diaspora
The Warrior
The Child Bride
The African Diaspora
African Diaspora Art by Derrick Grant
What does black identity mean to the many black voices of today? After an extensive history of struggle, subjugation, and liberation, how does a multitude of diverse communities with African heritage identify with their idea of the black ego? And most importantly, how does black identity relate to the spiritual self of true consciousness, that is within each and every one of us? With these essential questions in mind, artist Derrick Grant, as a member of the African Art Diaspora looks back to the origin of the Black Heart and its origin in the African landscape. Here we hope to find the original soul in not only stationed in the heart of each individual but also in the Art, music, culture and the traditions.
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Exhibitions
Art Exhibitions and Public Events
Here is an example of one of our art events presented in Miami in 2017.
What does black identity mean to the many black voices of today? After an extensive history of struggle, subjugation, and liberation, how does a multitude of diverse communities with African heritage identify with their idea of the black ego? And most importantly, how does black identity relate to the spiritual self of true consciousness, that is within each and every one of us? With these essential questions in mind, artist Derrick Grant, Contemporary African Diaspora Art. This work was presented in 2017 in Miami during the season of Art Basel.
Art Exhibitions and Public Events
Art Basel Show , Miami Florida.- 2018
SHOW'S CONCEPT:
Most of us are aware that we are Spiritual Beings having a human experience. But what is this existential spiritual being and where does it originate? Can we identify this spirit (which in the Hebrew Old Testament literally means breath, or wind) within ourselves? It is also believed that this spirt is passed along from generation to generation. Ancestries are continuously being crossed and combined with other spiritual families passing on this energy; with it all connecting back to the great un-manifested I AM.
Within all of us lies a lion of a spirit that drives our strength and passions and arises at necessary times. America is constructed from the transplanted diaspora, and the people of these many migrations are reaching back to relink the broken ancestral chains, in order to rise to their former majesty. The blood of our ancestors gushes with many colors, filled with spirit, truth, and the strength to resist any foe.
In the artwork of Derrick Grant the vibrant colors, sacred symbols, emotional depth and traditional patterns blend in with the current contemporary moods in art and fashion to form a link between past and present. The artist has tried to illustrate the spirit and how it drives each of us to be stronger, brighter, more alive, and sometimes even depressed. For no matter how bad it gets, again we'll rise.
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Modern Digital Contemporary Art
Thoughts on Digital Surrealism
Conceptually, surrealism is brought into existence through the eruption of subconscious electrical neural-thought and not derived from the world of physical reality. Therefore the creation of this genre of art requires a limitless environment where digital electrical impulses are allowed to interact in an infinite space. The results, projected on a 2D canvas, are only the pigmented record of these electrical impulses; following their interactions with each other. Thus, the computer mimics my neural thought process and produces a physical record that is then mechanically enhanced by me to approximate my perception of the real world. Over the years I have developed a method that has been referred to as the “Grantique” style. This style uses a combination of digital painting followed by traditional acrylic paints on canvas. I have sold and donated many art pieces in Philadelphia, USVI, New York and Miami and in 2007 founded DKdesignfineart website to sell the painted canvases. Additionally, our company transfers the art images to clothing and it is a pleasure to bring my creations to others in the form of wearable art .Email me at: dgrantdcanet@gmail.com
