Dan Lydersen
About
Dan Lydersen is a contemporary American painter based in Sacramento, California, known for his surreal, narrative works that blend historical art references with modern pop culture, theatricality, and satire. His paintings explore themes of existential turmoil, spirituality, materiality, and the reconciliation of past and present, often featuring imaginative, dream-like scenes that balance beauty and ugliness, comedy and tragedy. Influenced by Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical art, early Netherlandish painters like Bosch and Bruegel, as well as music and theater, Lydersen's style mixes figurative painting with surreal elements, subverting historical motifs to critique societal ideals.
Surreal narrative figurative painting blending Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, and pop influences
Selected Exhibitions
- Plasticine Dream, Sour Harvest (2023)
- LAX / AMS, STRAAT Museum, Amsterdam (2023)
- Hawai’i Walls, Thinkspace Projects, Honolulu (2023)
- Plebeian Rhapsody, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco (2017)
- New Work, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco (2013)
- Endless Vacation, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles (2013)
- Surrealism Now, Casa Museu Bissaya Barreto, Coimbra, Portugal (2010)