DANIEL ADEL’S CAREER BEGAN IN 1984 AFTER HE GRADUATED FROM DARTMOUTH COLLEGE WITH A DEGREE IN ART HISTORY. HE BEGAN PUBLISHING HIS WORK IN VARIOUS NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES WHILE CONTINUING HIS STUDIES IN FIGURATIVE PAINTING AT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN IN NEW YORK CITY WITH HARVEY DINNERSTEIN AND RON SHERR AS WELL AS PRIVATELY WITH BURT SILVERMAN. HE ALSO WORKED WITH ROBERT MORRIS IN THE MFA PROGRAM AT HUNTER COLLEGE.

IN 1994 HE ILLUSTRATED A CHILDREN’S BOOK WITH AUTHOR JON SCIESZKA, AND SINCE THEN HIS PAINTINGS HAVE APPEARED IN THE PAGES OF THE NEW YORKER, VANITY FAIR, THE NEW YORK TIMES, DER SPIEGEL, FORBES AND ESQUIRE, AMONG OTHERS. HIS WORK HAS ALSO APPEARED ON THE COVERS OF MANY OF THESE MAGAZINES, INCLUDING THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY MAGAZINE, NEWSWEEK, AND TIME, FOR WHOM HE PAINTED TWO COVERS IN 2004, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE MAN OF THE YEAR.

IN 2001 MR. ADEL’S PAINTINGS WERE FEATURED IN THE LINCOLN CENTER PRODUCTION OF “TEN UNKNOWNS” STARRING DONALD SUTHERLAND.

MR. ADEL HAS BEEN EXHIBITING HIS WORK IN NEW YORK CITY SINCE 1989. HE HAS BEEN REPRESENTED BY ARCADIA FINE ARTS IN SOHO SINCE 2001 WHERE HE HAS HAD THREE ONE-MAN SHOWS, MOST RECENTLY IN MARCH, 2007.

MR. ADEL HAS ALSO PAINTED COMMISSIONED PORTRAITS FOR SUCH CLIENTS AS NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY, THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, THE NEW YORK STATE COURT OF APPEALS, UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, AS WELL AS FOR NUMEROUS PRIVATE CLIENTS.

IN 2005 MR. ADEL OPENED THE ATELIER RUE BASSE, A GALLERY AND STUDIO IN THE VILLAGE OF LACOSTE IN PROVENCE.

IN 2006 MR. ADEL FOUNDED “L‘OS DE FIGUE” (THE FIGBONE), A BILINGUAL JOURNAL FEATURING LOCAL POETS, WRITERS, ARTISTS, AND NEWS OF QUESTIONABLE VERACITY. HE AND HIS WIFE, VERONIQUE, DIVIDE THEIR TIME BETWEEN LACOSTE AND NEW YORK’S HUDSON HIGHLANDS.