SUMMARY BIO
Dana Oldfather was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1978. She is a self taught oil painter who has been in exhibitions in galleries and museums across the country, including POV Evolving Gallery in LA, and The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown. Oldfather is proud to have been awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and Zygote Press in 2011, and the William and Dorothy Yeck Award for Young Painters in 2012. She is the newest and youngest featured artist at Ink Dish in San Diego, CA. Oldfather is currently represented at The Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. She has been twice featured in the New York Times, and she is included in many public and corporate collections some of which are Jones Day, Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas, The Cleveland Clinic, and the prestigious Progressive Art Collection. Some of her biggest art influences and favorite artists are Willem DeKooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Jackie Tileston, Reed Danziger, and Kristine Moran. Oldfather currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dana Oldfather was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1978. She is a self taught oil painter who has been in exhibitions in galleries and museums across the country, including POV Evolving Gallery in LA, and The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown. Oldfather is proud to have been awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and Zygote Press in 2011, and the William and Dorothy Yeck Award for Young Painters in 2012. She is the newest and youngest featured artist at Ink Dish in San Diego, CA. Oldfather is currently represented at The Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. She has been twice featured in the New York Times, and she is included in many public and corporate collections some of which are Jones Day, Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas, The Cleveland Clinic, and the prestigious Progressive Art Collection. Some of her biggest art influences and favorite artists are Willem DeKooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Jackie Tileston, Reed Danziger, and Kristine Moran. Oldfather currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Through an emotive abstraction, I examine the transitory nature of comfort, power, and security. Globular structures float and morph, at times propped up, and at times annihilated by something hard and sharp; objects overtake one another. The scene is a dance and a battle as contrasting forms converge and a lyrical, electric spreads. I am drawn to the combination of sweet and dangerous, solid and ephemeral, natural and man-made, physical and architectural. This combination of diametric elements results in a bio-mechanical environment and organism as one; something that has no birth or death and is beginning to show signs of autonomy.
Dana Oldfather
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