New Hours:
Wednesday - Friday 5:00 - 8:00 / Saturday 4:00 - 9:00
Don't see a convenient time to stop in?
Please call Paula for an appointment, 520-977-7102
or email
info@sacredmachine.com

Location:
245 E Congress St, STE 123
Tucson, Arizona 85701

Tel: 520-977-7102
(One block west of Hotel Congress)

EXHIBITION DATES: MAY 11th - JULY 31st, 2012

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Chris Mars
Daniel Martin Diaz
Craig LaRotonda
Bryan Cunningham
Norbert H. Kox
Robert Palacios
Robert Palacios
Paul Barnes
Joel Nakamura
Elizabeth Frank
Jon MacNair
Raudiel SaŇudo
Michael Page
Rhod Lauffer
Rhod Lauffer
Matthew Couper
Matthew Couper
Jasmine Worth
Jasmine Worth
Valerie Galloway
Valerie Galloway
Nick Georgiou
Robert Steven Connett
Titus Castanza
Daniel Martin Diaz
Daniel Martin Diaz
Daniel Martin Diaz
Daniel Martin Diaz

Daniel Martin Diaz

 

 

 

Anatomy of Sorrow
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Photos by Andrew Thornton
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.

Soundtrack by Blind Divine. Filmed and Edited by Opus Dei.
Music recorded live at Sacred Machine Museum.

 

 

Mysticus Publishing the makers of Daniel Martin Diaz and Blind Divine presents Daniel Martin Diaz art prints, posters, books, microportfolio box sets and apparel sold exclusively online at www.MysticusPublishing.com. Also available, the entire catalog of Blind Divine CD's. We ship anywhere in the world! Or visit us in person at Sacred Machine in beautiful Tucson Arizona!

Mysticus Publishing licenses and publishes the music of Blind Divine for film and television exclusively through Getty Images/Pump Audio. 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

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

 

Anatomy of Sorrow
Click to view book

 

                           
New Hours:
Wednesday - Friday 5:00 - 8:00 / Saturday 4:00 - 9:00
Don't see a convenient time to stop in?
Please call Paula for an appointment, 520-977-7102
or email info@sacredmachine.com


Location:
245 E Congress St, STE 123
Tucson, Arizona 85701

Tel: 520-977-7102
(One block west of Hotel Congress)

© 2012 Sacred Machine, © 2012 Mysticus Publishing