Dana Oldfather
www.danaoldfather.com
dmo@danaoldfather.com
Cleveland, OH
www.danaoldfather.com
dmo@danaoldfather.com
Cleveland, OH
Artist Statement:
A complete and fulfilled life can be
wracked with insecurity. A child can be
innocent and silly one moment and
entirely serious the next. It is our reality
that we do not function with singular
absolute emotions. Society, however
celebrates these absolutes in individuals.
This false importance leads me in my
desire to express the beauty of contrasts.
My interest is to demonstrate the hard
and soft parts of ourselves, whereby I
regard the contradiction as one idea, one
complete emotion rather than two. It is
the resolution of opposites into a singular
new identity, complete in itself, that is
important.
These abstractions celebrate motion and
borrow from past movements. With a
focus on youth, identity, and consumism,
and by employing contrasting graphic,
expressive, and magnified pointillist
elements, I attempt to illustrate the impact
of natural emotional contradiction. In art I
have always tried to connect to the world
through beauty. Each work is the
embodiment of paradox; a physical
manifestation of conflicting desires
communicated in an abstract
arrangement of forms.
A complete and fulfilled life can be
wracked with insecurity. A child can be
innocent and silly one moment and
entirely serious the next. It is our reality
that we do not function with singular
absolute emotions. Society, however
celebrates these absolutes in individuals.
This false importance leads me in my
desire to express the beauty of contrasts.
My interest is to demonstrate the hard
and soft parts of ourselves, whereby I
regard the contradiction as one idea, one
complete emotion rather than two. It is
the resolution of opposites into a singular
new identity, complete in itself, that is
important.
These abstractions celebrate motion and
borrow from past movements. With a
focus on youth, identity, and consumism,
and by employing contrasting graphic,
expressive, and magnified pointillist
elements, I attempt to illustrate the impact
of natural emotional contradiction. In art I
have always tried to connect to the world
through beauty. Each work is the
embodiment of paradox; a physical
manifestation of conflicting desires
communicated in an abstract
arrangement of forms.
| Smolder, Oil on Board, 12"x 12", 2009 |
| Thaw, Oil on Board, 12"x 12", 2009 |
| Sprout, Oil on Board, 12"x 12", 2009 |
| Chrry Lip Gloss, Sticky Smile, Oil on Board, 18"x 24", 2009 |
| Measure March, Oil on Board, 36"x 36", 2009 |
| Feeding, Oil on Board, 36"x 60", 2009 |