Daniel Yocum b. 1994

Heavily influenced by the New York School, American artist Daniel Yocum (b. 1994) has spent a collective 20 years working with an array of mediums in his expansive visual practice. Yocum, born in Kentucky and residing in Nashville, TN, is a self-taught painter with influences including Phillip Guston, Cy Twombly, Robert Crumb and Andy Warhol. Daniel takes a hip-hop approach to figurative abstract expressionism by sampling the imagery of cars and flowers accompanied by bursts of vivid color and lurking marks of black.