Unlocking the Darkness

Matt Dangler was born in 1984. He graduated in 2006 with a Fine Arts Degree in Illustration from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, while there he won numerous awards, including one for outstanding achievement in illustration, and representation of the human figure in his art. He has participated in over 30 gallery exhibitions and five solo exhibitions, and was included in Spectrum 14, 15, 17 and 18 annuals for "The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art". Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.