Dani Tull
Dani Tull is an artist based in Topanga Canyon, California. He received his MFA from Stanford University and a BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute. He has exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. Selected solo exhibitions have been presented by: The Landing, Blum and Poe, The Pit, and Diane Rosenstein (Los Angeles); Jack Hanley Gallery (San Francisco); Fredericks & Freiser and On Stellar Rays (New York City). His work has been written about in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Art in America, i-D Magazine, Wallpaper and Frieze, among others. Permanent collections include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art/LACMA and The Getty. Since 1990, Tull has curated internationally for various galleries as well as programming his artist-run space ODD ARK LA and The Encina Artist Residency in Topanga Canyon.
My earliest memories of Uncle Neeli are from around age three. He, lying flat on the floor or grass, would lift me high, supporting me with one hand as I outstretched my limbs to become a bird or plane gliding over an imaginary landscape, both of us smiling and laughing with pure joy.