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About
Sacred Machine:
Founded in May 2010, Sacred
Machine is a museum and curiosity shop
for the creations of world-renowned Tucson artist and musician Daniel
Martin Diaz, and wife and co-founder of their band Blind Divine, Paula
Catherine Valencia. "As native Tucsonans, we know the importance
of our diverse culture and lifestyle and feel we have embraced it and
expressed it through our own creativity. There is a sort of magic here
in the desert that makes it such a unique place. We see downtown Tucson
as an energetic enigma and we wanted to be in the thick of it."
Sacred Machine is a beautiful space: with art, t-shirts, posters, handpicked
books, funky handmade chandeliers and lighting fixtures, painted skateboards
and guitars, an antique grand piano, and a 15-Stop Harmonium from the
early 1900's for occasional musical performances, ranging from classical
to the unusual and eclectic. "Our hope is to involve artists and
musicians who rarely have a platform for their art, and to challenge
those who do exhibit or perform often, to experiment!".
Curated by Valencia, Sacred Machine also exhibits the finest local and
world-renowned guest artists in the outsider, visionary and pop surrealism
genres, as well as, features cutting-edge musical talent of varying
genres.
About Daniel Martin Diaz:
Drawing from old masters, Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegal, and Hieronymus
Bosch, both in subject matter and in the ancient egg tempera and resin
oil painting style, Daniel Martin Diaz's depictions have a sincerity
that exposes a seemingly endless devotion to reveal a higher meaning
through painstaking craftsmanship. His use of a limited pallet on distressed
wood, handmade wooden frames, and expressive use of Latin text allows
Diaz's images to thrust us into another time and place, as though resurrecting
relics from the past. Beneath the stained-glass -look and tortured faces
lies a depth and richness of an otherworldly spiritual dimension. In
this latest series of paintings, drawings and prints, Diaz delves into
the supernatural realm and summons adaptations of end time prophecies
and phenomenal consciousness.
A classically trained pianist and composer, Diaz, who is self-taught,
has been commissioned for the PBS Documentary, The Forgetting: A Portrait
of Alzheimer's, the CD artwork for the Atlantic Records multi-platinum
band, P.O.D., which sold over one million copies, the album cover artwork
for the multi-platinum band Good Charlotte, two large altar pieces for
San Antonio de Padua Catholic Church in Guaymas, Mexico, the Historic
Hotel Congress Proscenium stage, and the book design and layout for
Diaz's art books, Triginta Uno Dies, Thirty-One Drawings In Thirty-One
Days, Mysterium Fidei and Anatomy Of Sorrow published by La Luz de Jesus
Press and Last Gasp. He is currently working on three prominent public
art projects for the City of Phoenix, including projects for the innovative
Arizona Light Rail, as well as, two projects for the City of Tucson.
In 2011, Diaz completed Desert Splendor, sculptural works commissioned
by the City of Tucson for Centro Parking Garage in Downtown Tucson.
Most recenty, Diaz has completed a painting on a Vietnam-era Cluster
Bomb as part of The Boneyard Project, which has been exhibited at Pima
Air & Space Museum and will continue to travel throughout the US. A
time-lapse video of the painting of the bomb can be seen on Diaz's Blog.
To view Diaz's extensive catalog, and to view public and private commissions
and other projects online please visit: www.DanielMartinDiaz.com
The Los Angeles Times has
raved that "...the work of self taught Mexican-American artist
Daniel Martin Diaz ".... is broodingly personal" with "...a compelling,
esoteric edge."
About Blind Divine
The music of Blind Divine is best described as art music. These prolific
and experienced artists have embraced a creative style that is as unconventional
as it is carefully crafted, allowing subtle nuances to collide with
deliberate profoundness. Their musical paintings may be a thirty second
interlude designed to lure the listener into an otherworldly dreamscape,
where floating rhythms, ethereal vocals, haunting piano, or effected
guitars become a palette of many hues, a sonic texture that conjures
a visual aesthetic. While others embrace a mix of moody beats and emotional
vocals, where the art music becomes the theme of an enigmatic dream
that is as strange as it is inescapably familiar in a delicate and abstract
world, imbuing an ultra awareness of emotion, love, hate, fear, pain,
life, death, elation, or faith, and inviting the imagination to ruminate.
Since 2000, the music of Blind Divine has appeared on four album compilations,
and ten albums and 2 box sets through Diaz and Valencia's own label
Mysticus Publishing, the most recent being The One Hundred, in 2012,
which contains five albums and one hundred songs. All of Blind Divine's
albums have been mastered with Kris Solem in Los Angeles, CA, Jim Blackwood
in Tucson, AZ, JJ Golden in Ventura, CA and Grammy Award-Winning Mastering
Engineer Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering in Los
Angeles, CA. Their music has been licensed for numerous film and television
pruductions for film and television exclusively through Getty Images/Pump
Audio and Mysticus Publishing. Blind Divine's client list includes MTV,
VH1, A&E, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Biography Channel, Disney
Channel, Sony Pictures, and many more. To learn more about Blind Divine,
please visit www.BlindDivine.com
"Blind Divine has carved out a terrific sound
from the dark and the melancholy regions of alternative rock with hypnotic
female vocals and alluring guitarscapes."
‚ Tucson Weekly
Photo by Murphy Speaking Films
For additional information about the artwork of Daniel
Martin Diaz, the music of Blind Divine, and Mysticus Publishing, please
visit:
www.DanielMartinDiaz.com
For additional information about the artwork of Daniel
Martin Diaz, the music of Blind Divine, and Mysticus Publishing, please
visit
www.BlindDivine.com
www.MysticusPublishing.com
Or
call the museum directly at 520-777-7403 or 520-977-7102 for more information.
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Daniel
Martin Diaz Exhibition
Dates 2012:
La Halle St Pierre Museum, Paris, France, Sept
2011 - March 2012
Pima Air And Space Museum, The Boneyard Project,
Tucson, AZ, January - May 2012
Officine Dell'Immagine, Selva Obscura, Milan, Italy,
February - March 2012
Strychnin Gallery, Herzensbrecher, Berlin, Germany,
March - April 2012
Art Paris 2012, Grand Palais, Paris, France, March
- April 2012
Pop Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, July - August 2012
Blind
Divine Show Dates 2012:
SXSW, Tucson To Austin Showcase, Austin, TX, March 15
SXSW, The Big Knife Party, Austin, TX, March 15
SXSW, KillRedRocket Records, Austin, TX, March 16
Club Crawl, Club Congress, Tucson, AZ, April 21
Beyond The Sacred Music & Arts Festival, The Historic Rialto Theatre,
Tucson, AZ, May 12, All Ages Show
LPFM Benefit Show, La Cocina, Tucson, AZ, May 18
Club Congress, Tucson, AZ, June 23
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