Art Exhibition - 2022

Artist Statement

There is nothing more glorious than waking to the work of art - to the grand director

              of the day’s activities...purpose.

 

For some years I believed that I would never succeed as a proper artist. I didn't understand how to make

              2 dimensions into three. No landscapes, no portraits.  

                            After all, all successful artists despite their abstractions could achieve this.

 

Jack Bice during a senior seminar, asked why should I spend years laboring to achieve a proper portrait when I had already achieved a signature style.

It was a lightening bolt - a stellar concept. I was given permission to draw.

And draw I did.  On everything. Drumheads - tree bark - wood cigar boxes - etc.

 

' Horror Vacui ' - I was obsessed by the complex images of H. Bosch and Albrecht Durer’s woodcuts.

 

Activity energizing

              the image everywhere.

 

I draw on paper too!  The rejects becoming fodder for collage constructions.

 

A friend once mused that my art expressed an " alien language.  That Martians were using my hands

              as a vehicle to communicate.  

 

Whilst an interesting concept - art production is a purposeful act. My iconography has existed

from the first drawings/diddies thru and into my present work.

 

My work celebrates the sphere - the bulbous - the curve.  Thus, all works are ultimately founded on

              some form of the circle

                            or overwhelmed by the circular.

 

Humans appear to have an unusual and consistent need to mark their surroundings one way or another.

              Perhaps a primal urgency

                            to mark one’s territory.   My, what an entitled argument!

 

My identity and purpose in life remain inextricably linked to art making.

 

And, just sometimes .... a work results that appears as tho it was meant to exist.

 

Dana Kim Wolfson

 

Selected History

  • Media Studies UB - studied documentary photography with mentor - Milton Rogovin
  • Buffalo Theater Workshop - studied acting with mentor - Dick Blau
  • Arts In Education - commissioned to create masonite wall murals - Buffalo Public School System
  • Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center - Bullalo, N. Y. - multiple individual and group juried shows
  • Urban Art Project - 1 Theater Place - Buffalo, N. Y. - invited individual installation drawings and sculptures
  • 33rd Annual Drawing and Small Works Exhibition - Muncie, Indiana - national juried drawings
  • Craft Arts - Burchfield Art Gallery - Bullalo, N. Y. - juried beaded handbag
  • Art For AIDS Sake - Worcester, MA. - multiple years fundraiser/auction invited
  • MA Arts Lottery Grant Recipient - painting exhibition - Oakham, MA. Library
  • Arts Worcester At The Aurora - invited individual 2 dimensional works
  • BioTech 2 and Mass Medical Center - invited individual 2 dimensional works
  • Arts Worcester BiAnnual - 1st place sculpture and then best of show another year drawing
  • Southborough Art Center - MA - group invited drawings and prints
  • Gallery 1581 @ Boston School For Psychoanalysis - multiple group and individual exhibitions invited
  • Real Artways - Hartford, CT. - juried fundraiser/donation 2 dimensional work
  • Worcester Family Health Center - auction/fundraiser with drawing purchased by Boston sculptor; John Tagiuri
  • Creative Connections - Ashberham, MA. - invited individual