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

Oracles is a body of work that explores how identity is shaped through systems of power, and how it can be reclaimed through reflection and courage.  It’s about complexity and what it means to live with contradiction. Each piece holds space for both the pain of what was lost and the potential of what remains. Rather than offering resolution, the paintings function as quiet questions. What was cut away? What was planted? What still pulses, even beneath the surface?

This series emerged from my own lived experience, but it extends outward, toward anyone who has felt shaped by expectation, silenced by care, or fractured by love. It is an offering, not of answers, but of witness.

Oracles invites viewers to pause and reflect. To see not just the figures on the panel, but their internal landscapes mirrored back to them. In that space between image and viewer, something else becomes possible: empathy, recognition, and maybe even regeneration.