damien sutton

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Damien, born on Long Island, New York in 1977, is an American painter whose work is dark and sensual, fortuitous and discerning. For ten years Damien roamed, moving from city to city, country to country, life to life, day to day. Uncertain whether running from something or to something. Art became increasingly his anchor. Truly, since childhood, there had never been nor is there still anything that can bring that sense of wholeness with everything. For 6 years Damien studied at fine arts first at the San Francisco Art Institute and then little at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam which convinced him it was time to really do it right and head to boson where he finally earned his BFA at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2008. His final collection foretold the next page in his life: maxillofacial prosthetics. For 4 years he worked with patients at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and the Bronx VA Hospital in New York City and also the Manhattan VA hospital. Working with civilian as well as veteran patients that were missing facial parts due to trauma or disease, he created prosthetics that brought normalcy to their lives. He earned Certification as a Maxillofacial Prosthetist in 2010. After spending four years watching mentors network, chinwag and hobnob their integrity into a "successful" career, pausing to become prosthetist felt like searching for balance. The problem however was the insatiable need to create. Distanced now from that life since 2015 and observing all of this growth from a new perspective at 41, Damien has created his own company, DCSuttonDesigns.com, where he combines fine art, facial prosthetics and custom silicone creations that breathe the insinuation of possibility; emerging like imagination.