Daniel Pollera Art

Daniel Pollera (Born in 1953) was born in Freeport, the coastal town in New York. Pollera’s interest in art began when he was very young age and gravitated toward painting and drawing the surrounding coastline of Long Island. He studied shortly in Commercial Art at SUNY Farmingdale, after which he left to enter the family business. He also studied with a well respected President of the National Mural Society called Everett Molinari. For close to 15 years, Pollera took a rest from painting, but this did not stop his love for the sea. In 1977, he obtained a Captain’s License from the US Coast Guard and took passengers on the open ocean for hire. Through his visual knowledge and this experience, Pollera was drawn to start his painting again. He’s primarily self-taught but he worked with a mural and portrait artist Frances Norris Streit, assisting her on a historical mural (14’ X 30’) for the Roslyn savings bank.