About This Event
Be the first to see our brand new mural!
Hear a few words for how our new Artcade mural came to be from the artists. Then celebrate with a snack and stick around for a free bluegrass concert.
Our next Artcade mural has been devised by Daniel Bernier and Dan Gries, two artists who explore and invite viewers into the making process.
What's the Artcade?
The Artcade is a public space for exceptional visual art on view 24/7 at Ball & Socket Arts outside of Building 2 along the ramp as you enter the building.
To date, the Artcade has featured large-scale murals by four visual artists. Our 2025 to 2026 Artcade season is funded by the Ion Bank Foundation.
Daniel Bernier Bio:
Daniel Bernier is drawn to art that invites the viewer into the process of its making. They have long wanted to make musical instruments that don’t require formal training and reward experimentation. They reach most for legible tools and techniques. Each of these is an outgrowth of their understanding that people should be supported in their love for making interesting things, that people love to play.
Their partnership with Dan Gries has produced physical-pixel works that invite the viewer to notice how our eyes resolve an image from discrete points of color. To attend to how we see our screens, instead of what’s on them.
Based in Cumberland, Rhode Island, they are a musician, a poet, a sometimes-generative artist. They are learning to tune and repair pianos. They are a step-parent, and nonbinary.
Dan Gries Bio:
Dan Gries crafts algorithms using computer code to generate images that take physical form as inkjet prints, pen plotter drawings, or installations. His work is not made with artificial intelligence; instead, each piece emerges from systems he builds himself, shaped by decisions about form, motion, and texture.
He is drawn to imperfection and unpredictability: rough edges, wandering curves, and shifts in color or flow. His visual language ranges from minimalist, meditative geometries that seek stability to more intricate expressions of grace or turmoil in motion.
Dan Gries lives and works in New Haven, CT, teaching mathematics and computer science at Hopkins School while maintaining an active practice in visual art.