Brad Damico is an abstract digital artist who creates work using photography, creative coding, and animation. His pieces focus on color and shape, drawing on the Color Field, Minimalist, and Abstract Expressionist movements. He grew up in Raytown, Missouri, and is based near Kansas City, Kansas. Self-taught since 2013, he has shown work in group exhibitions in the United States, England, and China.
His path into art began with disc golf. Starting in 2005 he customized his discs with tape-and-dye patterns, and years later he carried those same designs from disc to canvas, the shift that turned him into an artist. He trained as a programmer, and a COBOL class project in his final year of college led to a teaching job. He later spent several years working as a programmer before returning to teaching. Photography was his starting point, and his programming skills let him extend that practice into creative coding, using code to alter photographs and process generative images with software built for photo editing.
