Danny Heller Paintings
American, b. 1982
Danny Heller paints the reality of the American environment: how structures once revered for their groundbreaking ideas in design and social planning have been perpetuated and how they have been forgotten.
Primarily focusing on the nation’s mid-century identity, Heller plays with lighting, dramatic angles, and specific colors to form engaging paintings that capture architectural elements. He uses a realistic style to paint those moments where design and environment come together harmoniously in order to showcase the compelling characteristics of these spaces. In some ways, Heller acts as a documentarian of an endangered architectural culture in America. However, these paintings are a bit more personal, as they tend to focus on locations from the artist's childhood or at least slices of an era recounted to him from his parents’ and grandparents’ times.
By painting these historically and personally significant scenes, Heller reconnects with a presumably by-gone time period whose remnants actually still exist. Because
especially in an age that values constant change, when the past is demolished to
make way for the brand new, we are at risk of losing our collective history. Without
which, we leave ourselves devoid of a foundation to build our future on.to
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Artist: Danny Heller
Thanksgiving Day Parade Charlie Brown Float
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses o...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Drugs
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
"Drugs" by Danny Heller draws inspiration from a pharmaceutical store on a busy avenue corner in NYC. See second image for the real life referenced location.
My latest series openi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Frank Lloyd Wright, Sturges House
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mercury at The Highline
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses o...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
B&B Shoe Repair
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, “Birth of the Cool,” celebrates the midcentu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Central Park Evening
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Humphrey
s Cadillac
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Richard Neutra, Lovell House
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Parker Center
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- I paint the reality of the Southern California environment: how structures once revered for their groundbreaking ideas in design and...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Usonia House At Twilight
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Usonian Ideal
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses o...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$4,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Usonia Visitors
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Usonia Afternoon
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,320 Sale Price
20% Off
RM Schindler, Spec House
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lloyd Wright, Taggart House
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
San Diego Modern Pathway
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
RM Schindler, Falk Apartments
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Transamerica Building
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Dinner Table
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- I paint the reality of the Southern California environment: how structures once revered for their groundbreaking ideas in design and...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eichler Door Orange and Blue
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
From the artist statement, "My artwork centers on mid-century American architecture and design, once revered for its groundbreaking ideas in form and social planning, but now largely...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Gossips
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, “Birth of the Cool,” celebrates the midcentu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Eichler Door #13
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --From the artist statement, "My artwork centers on mid-century American architecture and design, once revered for its groundbreaking i...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Guggenheim + TBird, limited edition print
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY
LA -- My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses on the cultural centers and glamorous institutions that signaled its strength – and enchantment – in the 1950s and 60s. Covering such bewitching landmarks as Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim, and 5th Avenue stalwart Bergdorf Goodman, this series delves into how high design from this groundbreaking Modern period shaped metropolitan society and reinforced New York as a cultural capital. When viewed individually, each painting showcases an aspect of booming avant garde design, be it the Metropolitan Opera’s Sputnik Chandeliers, the high fashion displayed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Paper, Giclée
Eichler Door 3
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --From the artist statement, "My artwork centers on mid-century American architecture and design, once revered for its groundbreaking i...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
LAX Theme Building Loading Dock
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- I paint the reality of the Southern California environment: how structures once revered for their groundbreaking ideas in design and...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Airport Service, Framed
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- I paint the reality of the Southern California environment: how structures once revered for their groundbreaking ideas in design an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Afternoon At The Glass House
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,104 Sale Price
20% Off
Humphrey
s Gouache
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eames Chair and Painting
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, “Birth of the Cool,” celebrates the midcentu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
TWA Study, Framed
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA -- My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses on the cultural centers and glamorous institutions that signaled its strength – and enchantment – in the 1950s and 60s. Covering such bewitching landmarks as Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim, and 5th Avenue stalwart Bergdorf Goodman, this series delves into how high design from this groundbreaking Modern period shaped metropolitan society and reinforced New York as a cultural capital. When viewed individually, each painting showcases an aspect of booming avant garde design, be it the Metropolitan Opera’s Sputnik Chandeliers, the high fashion displayed...
Category
2010s American Realist Danny Heller Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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