About Danny
Danny Gordo is a figurative painter, tattoo artist, musician, and founder of The Copper Wolf Tattoo Studio and Art Gallery based in Tumwater, WA. He holds a BFA in Illustration from the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and is the 2025 Robert B. McMillen Foundation MAC Award winner. Using oil and graphite, Danny blends classical techniques with contemporary symbolism to craft visually intricate and emotionally resonant images that invoke contemplation and reflection in viewers.
Beyond his studio practice, Danny is an active teacher and mentor. He currently works primarily with young artists in the South Puget Sound region, helping them strengthen both their craft and their creative perspective. His work has been shown throughout the country and embodies an ongoing commitment to inquiry, emotional integrity, and the idea that art can serve as a catalyst for personal and collective transformation.
The Oracles Collection - 2025
Oracles is a body of work in which I’m trying to understand how systems of power shape identity, and what it means to take some of that back. It sits in that tension between what’s been cut away and what’s still there underneath.
The work comes from my own experience, but it’s for anyone who’s been shaped by expectations or changed by systems that were supposed to care for them. I want to shine a light on these ideas and infuse them with the hope that, given enough reflection, we might find what was once lost.
What I want is for the paintings to slow people down and give them space to see something of themselves in the work. If that happens, even briefly, then it’s doing what it’s supposed to.
A Song Of Home Never Reached | oil on canvas | 48x48"
Wolves Sleep At Her Bare Feet | oil on aluminum panel | 18x24"
Fear Shapes What Purity Cannot Hold | oil on aluminum panel | 24x48"
Every Journey Changes The Shape Of Home | oil on aluminum | 18x24"
Infinity | oil on wood panel | 12x16" - SOLD
Hope Seems Fragile In This Dark | oil on canvas | 36x48"
Love & Loss Entwined | oil on wood panel | 18x24"
Lost Between The Stars And Foam | oil on wood panel | 18x24"
Synchronicity | oil on aluminum panel | 12x16" - SOLD
Her Hands Chose Fire Over Forgetting | oil on aluminum | 18x24"
The Heart Asks Return, Not Gold | oil on aluminum panel | 24x48"
Humanity | oil on aluminum panel | 12x16" - SOLD
As Above, So Below | oil on wood panel | 18x24"
Arms Around The Fallen | oil on wood panel | 18x124"
A Torch Passed Through Unseen Hands | oil on aluminum panel | 18x24" - SOLD
Divinity | oil on aluminum panel | 12x16" - SOLD
Lucidity | oil on aluminum panel | 12x16" - SOLD
Love Did Not Soften The Blade | oil on aluminum | 18x24"
She Chose Her Name Each Morning | oil on aluminum | 18x24"