Daniel Clayman trained as a studio glass artist in private studios and schools across America throughout the 1970's. Upon receiving his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1986, he came to prominence through the practice of cire perdue or "lost wax" casting, creating unique sculptures in glass and bronze. From the opaque to the translucent, these materials alternately serve as sheathes and the sheathed, containers and the contained. From the mid-1980's onward, he developed a series of organic pod forms, which explored the themes of protective nests and enclosure. His exploration evolved into studies of form and movement, channeled forms in which we see the seeds of his mature style, defined by its increasing refinement of form.

Clayman's Minimalist glass sculptures explore the subtlety and the drama of form and movement, light and shadow. Evincing total mastery of pate de verre, a process in which tiny shards of crushed glass are worked into a thick paste before being fired in a kiln, his most recent works inflect austere geometrics with forms evocative of ancient tools and ceremonial objects. Informed by methods ranging from traditional calligraphy to cutting-edge computer-assisted design, the artist has developed a highly inimitable style defined by the reduction of forms to their absolute essences.

The artist holds a BFA from the Rhode Islands School of Design, and his works have featured in numerous solo exhibitions and group shows at venues including the American Craft Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Corporate collections that have acquired his works include such notable entities as the Mayo Clinic, the National Geographic Society, and the Whitehead Institute.