Today we’d like to introduce you to Dante Campudoni.
Hi Dante, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Growing up, I was always artistically inclined it would show up in school sports and home life. Coming out of high school I had relied on athleticism to get a scholarship and opportunity to go to school but unfortunately due to unprecedented financial troubles.
I had to leave feeling as though I lost a part of me I fell into a depression that would soon be resolved with my newfound love for art it started with just sketches and led to watercolor and here I am today five years later my whole world revolves around art and the ability to give people that hope that I found within it, that true freedom for me came from the paintbrush.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It’s been a bumpy road with occasional smooth pavement, but what is the artistic journey without these struggles, the main hurdle that we have to get over is ourselves we’ll tell ourselves that an idea is stupid or belittle our self-worth.
Getting over that is the key to making great art. Having a community and building one is essential as well without each other we have nothing and refusing it is just allowing us to sustain ignorance and never prosper.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I’m a Painter through and through I work primarily with Acrylics and stretched canvas I do work on murals as well and dabble in fashion, I’m known most for eyes they are a motif in my work and resemble our need to be seen, recently I curated a show called primaries were artist of all kind created a work in primary colors and got to talk about our primary philosophies of life and art.
Creating such an intimate representation of the idea of 26 different artists promoted the ability for us to be fragile in front 0f the artist and our peers and boosted our community’s relationship with each other I believe creating this show helped the community and gave this artist an opportunity to speak on their beliefs on a proper platform.
How do you define success?
I don’t define success as monetary or quantitative, I consider success as being able to touch one another and to give hope to others whether it be by example or a platform, being able to progress humanity through positive reinforcement and build on previous ideas and our ideas turning into the previous.
I like the notion of being long forgotten but our fingerprints still being here for example no one knows by memory who created concrete but it’s an essential thing that we use in our daily lives. That to me is success.
Pricing:
- Murals $10 per square foot
- Commissioned art $2 per square inch
Contact Info:
- Website: tourchezart.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tourchez/
- Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/Tourchez/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TourchezArt
