Born 1965 in Middleton, NS, Danny Hussey received a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1990. Hussey has maintained studio space in Ottawa since 1997.

For the past 13 years Hussey has produced paintings that have been influenced by science texts, illustrations, and theory. His current work has focussed on interpreting scientific notion with the use of common images. Images are selected from a close at hand universe, that is a microcosm of the real thing. Everyday things are grouped together to reduce established, complex, ideas into visually economic displays. Images are not intended, necessarily, as subject matter, more so as tools, to ultimately reveal the subject. Working in a cellular fashion, each painting is made up of a number of panels, each with its own identity and individual purpose, yet when combined with other cells forms a unique whole. The work is not limited to paint alone, however, using a variety of materials industrial and found. Among the found materials Hussey has developed a system of generating wood-cut blocks

A wood-cut block is added to a painted panel.

to be used as additions to some painted panels, or as individual cells in multi-celled paintings.

Viewers of Hussey’s work add credence to the notion that everything is interconnected, on some level, by immediately trying to associate individual image cells in these multi-celled paintings. This participation on the part of the viewer is purely an instinctive and sometimes subconscious act. Conversely, this is a conscious and calculated effort on the part of Hussey.