Danny Galieote is a fine artist living and working from his home studio in Los Angeles. He began his professional art career at the Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, CA where he was a traditionally trained, hand-drawn Character Animator. Over his 12 year animation career, he created many key cinematic moments for Disney classic films such as, Lion King, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Tarzan, Atlantis, Treasure Planet, Princess and the Frog and Tangled. He feels that his years as an animator has helped him create more movement and energy in his paintings.
While at the Studios, Danny continued his study of painting the human figure and the American West. He grew up with horses and helped take care of them at his Parent’s home farm where his Father raised Quarter horses. Danny also studied them often at the Equestrian Center in Burbank, where he still likes to go to practice riding skills. While working as an animator in the 90’s, Danny traveled to Italy and studied the Masters up close and honed his drawing and painting skills.
Danny’s fine art has been derived and evolved from many influences over the years. His work is infused with his love of Renaissance art and the artwork of the 1930s-40s American Regionalists and Golden Age Illustrators, such as Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Norman Rockwell and NC Wyeth. His art is in the pursuit of capturing universal timeless themes of human nature.
Danny has had many exhibitions and commissions worldwide. He studied classical figurative art and anatomy extensively in Italy and was an instructor of Figure Drawing at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA for over 7 years. His work is in many prestigious Permanent Collections around the US, including several paintings at the Hilbert Museum of California Art.
In the past decade, Danny has done several commissioned paintings for Hollywood film stars, such as Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. His work has been featured on Hollywood Extra TV and People Magazine. The film director, Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters, etc) owns many of Danny’s paintings, one of which is the Logo for his Production Company, Feigco Entertainment, and is seen in the opening credits of his movies. Danny’s artwork is also seen on many Napa Valley Wine Labels and he is also designing coins for the United States Mint.
Danny continues to work on his painting exhibitions primarily with
Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Pasadena, CA.
His work is uniquely coined as “POP AMERICAN REGIONALISM”
