Dan McCabe
Dan McCabe was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1964. At 19, Dan was hired as an apprentice in one of the first fine art bronze foundries in Sedona, Arizona. For the next 20 years, Dan mastered all the facets of the lost wax casting and the precision fabrication needed to produce a bronze sculpture. Here Dan acquired the education, expertise, and passion for metalworking. "As a young child with a profound hearing loss, my remaining senses were heightened. Although seeing, smelling, and touching were my basis for reality, I always felt there was more to the world, a part hidden, a secret, a mystery. My work begs to be touched, explored, and discovered. Dan states “metal is my material. Challenging me as an artist and craftsman, I strive to transform this medium into beautiful, lacy, precise, polished, and modern pieces while playing with its inherent industrial nature. I create and then juxtapose textures, shapes, and lines in my work. Organic form vs. modern lines and bronze vs. steel are my yin and yang. My most recent creations explore how nature adapts to the man-made world. I am honored to be part of a long tradition of artists who have found a passion, through the heat, acrid smoke, grinding, and brute force necessary, to be a metalsmith.”