Daniel Backman's New Exhibit at Awaken Cafe

Swing by Awaken Cafe Friday, October 2nd from 5-8pm to celebrate Daniel Backman's new exhibit, Collage City. This show will feature his imaginative collages of urban structural juxtapositions, as better described by him below:

This series of architectonic collages envisions a city engaged in a constant state of transformation. The urban fabric is a collage in its own right, aggregated over time into a massive infrastructural complex on a vast scale. My abstract - yet distinctly spatial - compositions explore future urban landscapes derived from my memory, imagination and present reality. Using the scraps, maps, magazines and memorabilia that I accumulate in my studio, I dismantle then reassemble architectural fragments into new and unexpected relationships. The interlocking forms and surreal juxtapositions blur the boundaries between interior and exterior, natural and manmade, growth and decay, earth and sky. While many different cities have shaped my vision, from Boston to Philadelphia to Oakland and beyond to Rio and Barcelona, these collages represent not a singular place but rather the themes that have traveled with me throughout my experience as an artist, a designer, and a city dweller.

To read more about the exhibit click HERE, and to see more of his diverse body of work click HERE. Backman is also a dope DJ and painter (see below) so keep him on your radar. The exhibit will be open October 2- November 4. Awaken Cafe can be found at 414 14th St between Broadway and Franklin in the DTO (downtown Oakland).