JT Daniels
Kansas City native JT Daniels first received his BFA from Park University in Parkville, Missouri in 2011. Daniels has exhibited in both group and solo shows. His numerous large-scale murals and public art projects can be seen across the Greater Kansas City area. JT’s work weaves together various elements into streamlined designs that represent the heartbeat of the urban community. Overlapping faces and figures within the illustrations are visual representations of the people he encounters. These conversations and interactions become the compositions that signify the complexity of the human experience. In his work, he takes the opportunity to add phrases or words that have personal meaning. One of his favorite phrases is ‘SUP’, which stands for “Surviving Under Pressure”. The idea of ‘SUP’ encompasses the concept of what it is to be human and how we survive. He takes that embodiment of what surviving under pressure means and gives it life through art.