Chinese-born DALeast is easily one of the most prolific street artists of our time, as well as an accomplished painter, sculptor, and digital artist. The dark imagery found in DALeast’s art is undeniably captivating, woven with intricate detail while focusing on the simple subjects in his pieces. Each of his pieces of art is created using paint to look like thousands of metal shards are coming together to form beautiful shapes, often animals or humans. Within every piece of DALeast’s art, a pop of color observed in the background brings his subject to life. This allows him to focus on the intricacy of his technique while delivering his final product. The use of fractured imagery and contrasting backgrounds serve to give his art a breath of energy and soul that can sometimes be lost in art with a more somber subject matter.
A majority of DALeast’s art utilizes animals as the subject matter. In many of his works, less pronounced line work in the background serves as a shadowing effect for the images illustrated in the forefront. The overall artistic effect of utilizing a dark base while simultaneously highlighting in fragmented, brighter lines is to make the images appear to leap off the wall or canvas; It is the artist’s skillful layering of lines that leads the viewer to be able to visually interpret the image in many different ways.
When viewing DALeast’s art, there is seemingly magic in his ability to establish illusion with a certain combination of lines. DALeast delivers a sense of wonder with his work every time. One aspect of this style, which makes DALeast’s art truly amazing, is how skillfully he manipulates his splintered lines in order to capture the movement, form, stillness or feeling of the respective subject. DALeast’s art is meant to capture its audience’s emotion in every way possible.
Solo exhibitions
2014
– The Laten Photon – Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York City, USA
2013
– REDOK – The Outsiders, Newcastle, UK
– The DALeast London Dare, Urban Interactive Project, London, UK
2012
– Powder of Light – Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, USA
– Fever of The Worn Land – Urban Painting Gallery, Milan, Italy
– Antenna Garden – DALeast&Faith47, Rtist Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Group exhibitions
2014
– Greetings from New York City: Jonathan LeVine Gallery Visits Berlin – Urban Nation & Jonathan LeVine Gallery, Berlin, Germany
– ART14 Art Fair – The Outsiders, London, UK
2013
– BRUTAL – Lazarides, London, UK
– 10 Years of Wooster Collective: 2003—2013 – Wooster Collective & Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, USA
– Avant-Garde Urbano – Tudela de Navarra, Spain
– DOS – Toronto, Canada
– Cash,Candy&Cans – Hilger, Vienna, Austria
– 10 Year Anniversary Show – White Walls & shooting Gallery, San Fransisco, USA
– CRUNCH – The Outsiders, Newcastle, UK
2012
– Hybrid Thinking – Wooster Collective & Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, USA
– Streets of the World – Opera Gallery, New York, USA
– Picks of the Harvest – Thinkspace Gallery, Culver City LA, USA
– Wild At Heart: Keep Wildlife in the Wild – Thinkspace Gallery, Culver City LA, USA
– Crossing Borders – MSA Gallery, Paris, France
– Herzensbrecher – Strychnin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011
– Welcome To The Jungle – Urban Painting Gallery, Milan, Italy
– MSAGallery Launch – MSA Gallery, Paris, France
– Fresh Produce – Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, USA
– Outside – 34FineArt, Cape Town, South Africa
– City Leaks – Cologne, Germany
Projects
2014
– Sea Walls: Murals for Ocean project – PangeaSeed – San Diego, USA
– Project M/6 – Urban Nation & Jonathan LeVine Gallery – Berlin, Germany
– Urban Forms Mural Project – Lodz, Poland
– Dunedin Mural Project – Dunedin, New Zealand
– Forest for the trees – Portland, USA
– East Village Mural Project – New York, USA
– Street Art Dopping – Warsaw, Poland
– Day One Festival – Roeselare, Belgium
2013
– Los Muros Hablan – San Juan, Puerto Rico
– Avant-Garde Urbano – Tudela de Navarra, Spain
– MAUS – Malaga, Spain
– Nuart Festival – Stavanger, Norway
– Wall/Therapy – Rochester NY, USA
– POW WOW – Honolulu, Hawaii
– Scupltura Viva International Symposium – San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
– Memorie Urbane – Gaeta, Italy
– Mural Project – Heerlen，Netherlands
– Upfest – Bristol, UK
2012
– WynwoodWalls – Miami, USA
– WALL/THERAPY – Rochester NY, USA
– WorldOpenWalls – Miami, USA
– WorldOpenWalls – ShangHai, China
– ParisFreeWalls – Paris, France
– Mural Project – Melun, France
– Mural Project – Windhoek, Namibia
– Re-scripting Architecture/AZA 2012 – Cape Town, South Africa
– Carbon Event – Melbourne, Australia
– Mural Project – Aarhus, Denmark
2011
– City Leaks – Cologne, Germany
– Urban Mural Project – Thessaloniki, Greece
– Les murs litinerrance – Paris, France
– Visual Intervention – Rochester, USA
– Bateller, Bratislava – Slovakia
– Night Wolves – Johannesburg, South Africa
– Greatmore Studios International Visiting Artist – Cape Town, South Africa
2010
– China International Mural Project – Shenzhen, China
Gallery
Murals
Paintings
Ink drawings
