Biography

                       


Daryl Bates was born in Tampa, Florida in the late summer of 1973.  His family moved residence every three years, due to his father’s military career.  The transitory development of Daryl’s childhood introduced the rich cultural differences of people and places that grew into a lifelong fascination for craft and travel.

Daryl’s early college and working years were in San Francisco, California.  At the prestigious San Francisco Art Institute he developed an understanding for the history and practice of painting.  Additionally, Daryl discovered the greater consortium of genres that painting shares in the world of art.  San Francisco exposed him to the gallery and museum industries, from grassroots to international.  He worked with art professionals in painting, metal fabrication, commercial, underground and museum galleries, public schools, public institutions, and guerilla installations.  Daryl’s first solo and subsequent group exhibitions occurred during this time.

In the fall of 2005 Daryl left San Francisco, his home of 11 years, to pursue a teaching opportunity in the middle-eastern nation of Kuwait at a British international school.  During this time he had the privilege to exhibit three drawings in an urban Arab community gallery, Dar El Cid in Jabriya.

2006 marked the year Daryl entered graduate study at Laguna College of Art and Design.  At LCAD, He further developed an understanding of figurative representation from observation in painting and drawing, and developed his teaching practice.  He began an ongoing body of paintings, “The Incredible Disillusion of Being,” seeking an interpretation of individuals in various states of repose, contemplation, bordom and meditation.  

Namaste’