Daniel Martin Diaz

Based in Tucson, Arizona, Daniel Martin Diaz is an American performer and musician. His act out has been exhibited worldwide and has been published in LA Times,^{[citation needed]} NY Times,^{[citation needed]} Juxtapoz, High Fructose, and Low Rider Magazine as without difficulty as in five books dedicated to his artwork. Diaz has intended artwork for large public art projects in the US and has won many awards such as a gold and platinum record designed for Atlantic Records. He is also on the go in various musical projects.

The band P.O.D. commissioned Diaz to design and paint the cover of their self-titled album Payable upon Death. The album went gold in four weeks and caused a controversy across the country due to the lid artwork Diaz created. In 2010, he intended and painted the cover of fine Charlotte's album, Cardiology.

Diaz's influences enhance an eclectic mixture from fantastical Mexican Retablos, mystical votive offerings, the Early Netherlandish painters, Gothic ornamentation, arcane religious sigils and medallions, alchemy, as capably as symbolism culled from assorted unexceptional societies such as The Rosicrucians.

Symbolism plays a central role in Diaz’s art. It harks incite to an earlier Christian culture where a mostly illiterate populace could admission the paths leading to the world of the Spirit in the figures, colors, symbols, and gestures of the sculptures, paintings, and mosaics that adorned the portals, walls, and altar screens of the churches. Like his predecessors, he provides an artistic shorthand—one uniquely his—to bring his spectators to an inner, higher world.

"One of my prehistoric memories as a child was the pretension death and religion played an important role in my family’s life. My parents were born in Mexico with established beliefs, and their beliefs made their pretentiousness into my subconscious. The fact that many of those beliefs seemed to render no logical savings account has then influenced me. These unanswered questions locate a home in my work, which evokes the mystery, fear and irony of those vivid memories of my past. I get not allegation to understand these questions. I just paint and let them reveal themselves to me." - Daniel Martin Diaz

Diaz is a primary devotee of the bands Blind Divine (with singer Paula Catherine Valencia); Crystal Radio (with singer Amelia Poe) and Trees Speak.