With a constantly shifting sense of identity, Daniel Ochoa constructs imagery through his work that is informed by images, technology, and memory. Painting in layers, he uses masking techniques to jumble formal qualities such as abstraction and realistic representation.

Recently, the artist has sourced imagery from Google Street View, the NASA API and social media networks as a way to trace the effect technology has on the construction of images. The combination of divergent elements suggests a pluralistic reality bridging the historical framework of painting, self and the influence of technology on image making. Recent projects in programming use API data to address mapping and discovery where simulation wags the tail of reality. This reality is transferred to canvas in a fresh edgy way.