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Vinyl Art by Daniel Edlen
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Vinyl Art by Daniel Edlen is music-inspired portraiture on vinyl records. It was developed by Daniel Edlen as a teenager in the 1990's while growing up in Southern California. He started collecting 33 1/3 LPs and ended up with unplayable duplicates. Rather than throwing them away, Edlen uses white acrylic and handpaints portraits onto the worn albums with the density of the paint creating the shading. The paintings are almost like black and white newspaper photographs in reverse. He paints the musician(s) "right on the physical canvas of their music" and then frames the record in front of the original album sleeve. Favoring no particular musical genre, Vinyl Art has depicted artists like Ray Charles, Lou Reed and Janis Joplin.
Now based near Phoenix, Arizona, Edlen was motivated to publicize and sell his work in late 2006 by friends and family looking for personal unique gifts.
Viewers often comment on the amount of detail and the accuracy of the portraits, sometimes assuming a computer is involved in a mechanical process to create the images.
"No, they're handpainted with a brush, and no, you can't play them anymore."
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