Daniel Rafatpanah is an artist and designer currently residing in Portland, Oregon. He is a first generation son of Iranian immigrants, born in the city of Hartford, Connecticut.

His artistic influences are drawn from the works of Henri Matisse, Austin Osman Spare, Beresford Egan, and Pablo Picasso, which can be seen in his attention to line work , gesture, and abstraction.

Currently he is working on a series of gouache and ink portraits as well as gestural paintings. Alongside that he is continuously working on a series of single line stencil designs, some of which are being incorporated into wearable pieces. Daniel also regularly works with photography, film, and graphic design.

Daniel’s history includes working on the formation of such projects as DIY Bandits, PDX Occulture, Esozone, and The Parlour. For the last six years he has been involved with community building on the fringes, all the while continuing to build upon a personal body of work.

His interests include fetishism, art deco, new wave, lucid dreaming, and the occult. Catch him in the right mood and he may regale you with tales of out of body experiences and extra sensory perceptions. Daniel is a freestyle shaman and a pervert who vows never to visit his family’s native Iran until he can be just as unabashed about it there as he can be here. A proud product of The Great Satan.

“Most shining of a new breed of dream vendors, his snake oil is actually made from real snakes.

Winged Ones.”

Juan Ochoa – Concept Artist Bogotá, Colombia

His first art show, entitled ‘This is Stupid’,  was in May 2009.