Dan Alva Remastering Masters

Putting a spin on the classics is what Dan Alva does best. After spending his childhood working alongside his father in the family garage, he largely credits his attention to details, and care for the smaller pieces of a large whole, to him. 

Based in Miami, Alva takes the classics and reinvents them for a modern-day audience. He re-masters the masters and creates undoubtedly alluring work. His bold and unapologetic pieces are incredibly intricate, as he combines his figurative visual language with bursts of camouflage, stripes, and other patterns. 

Coming from a background of Spanish contemporary artists, and a career in marketing and advertising, Alva has fine-tuned his ability to cut and paste, so to speak, a plethora of imagery into meticulously crafted paintings with precise strokes and clean lines. Known for his signature splicing of images, Alva takes inspiration from his own MFA in Art History and loves to play with the juxtaposition of old and new, abstract and figurative as well as the superposition of two independently iconic works, thus creating a third masterpiece, in his own words: “aside from the painting itself, my favorite part has been these forced collaborations between dead masters that never would have happened back in those days. For example, Sleeping with the Fishes has Da Vinci, Rembrandt and Van Gogh all in one.”