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Galleries

Exhibitions

THE WORK OF DANA DONATY, SHOWN AT THE
"3RD BIENNIAL ''ARTISTS OF ART SALON'' EXHIBITION" EXHIBITION

DANA DONATY HAS PRESENTED AT THE FOLLOWING ART SALON:
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CONTACT INFORMATION

42 lake eden drive
Boynton beach, FL 33435

Phone: 561-504-3374

VISIT DANA DONATY'S WEB SITE

ARTIST'S E-MAIL: ddrocks@me.com

MEDIUMS EXPLORED:
painting, sculpture

ARTISTS STATEMENT
Dana Donaty is known for her "Profoundly Playful" painting and sculpture series, which comes from an interest in satirical playfulness, fragments of timeless memory where nothing is sacred.

"Profoundly Playful" blends reality and fantasy with narrative, satire, burlesque, psychology and “a super charged palette”, in a process of actions and reactions. She places virgin canvas underneath the “in-process” painting on her easel, and ‘collects’ the excess paint that is flung, splattered, scraped, spilled and off loaded. The floor work is then raised to eye level. From the aggregation of Rorschach-like blots of primordial color, a fresh composition and a new group of figurative characters emerge. Their shape serves as stimulus for free association. This is a central part of her creative process, giving life to a cast of characters, each exhibiting the vitality of their individual freedom, each one leading to another – creating, conceptually, a visual display of memories sourced from the subconscious.

In addition to this auto-associative memory process, Donaty often assimilates ideas or phrases from things people say or from books on audio that she listens to while working. She says: “My process mirrors the way in which we learn. We cannot ultimately control how information finds us or how we process it. Therefore, I regard chance as the organizing principle employed in constructing each painting. My work is my poetic theater of uncertainty, popular culture, universal truths, personal experiences and the modern condition. The viewer can partake in a stable set of meanings or challenge the imagery with their own sense of wonder.”

Donaty grew up in New Jersey, in a family with mixed Colombian, Peruvian, Italian, Irish and American backgrounds. She has a BA in Drawing from Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA. After living in London for twelve years, she relocated to Florida in 2006, where she now lives and works. From 2015 to 2019, she was an Artist-in-Residence at Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami. Since then, she has had artist residencies in Varanasi and Jaipur, India, and plans to go again soon.

DANA DONATY'S ARTWORK