With an exhibit history going back to 1973, Daniel Tucker has made deep dives into painting, book production, publishing, poetry and films. This describes the arc of his life—an almost fifty year multi-dimensional journey and excavation of his creative wellspring. He begins each painting as he begins each day—with a sense of wonder and an enthusiasm for exploring possibilities.

Some artists are unaware of the walls built around them by their own concepts and story. Tucker is a true visionary whose paintings are excavated from inside his own cave walls, his open fields, his mountains. They can be experienced as topographical maps of the territories (some as yet unknown and undiscovered) within which one can wander, seek a buried treasure, or un-map what has been mapped. His body of work spans decades and exhibits a depth of feeling and a spontaneity unusual for a mature artist.

In 2012, Daniel Tucker sold his entire studio collection to a single collector. This enabled him to fully concentrate on new work. At the time, he was living and working in Telluride, Colorado, a world-renowned alpine hamlet where he founded the Ah Haa School for the Arts and The American Academy of Bookbinding.

His works are in major private and public collections including London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, The Metropolitan Museum in New York City, The Denver Art Museum, and the library of MOMA in New York City.

In 2019, Tucker’s trajectory involved an attempt on his life outside his studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This traumatic experience gifted him with a new freedom of expression which generated several series of paintings including “Notes from the Observatory”, “The Coherence of Bears”, “Prisms” and “A Walk in Other Lands”. He still paints almost every day in his downtown Santa Fe studio.