"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare.. my business is to create."
- William Blake


Artist Profile

Dana has won multiple art awards, including a nomination for the prestigious Museum Tech Award, Hallmark Card's gold medal award, and winner of the Innovation Award at the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to being a painter, Dana is a well established interactive designer and helped design the 3D telepresence interfaces for the NASA ASTEP Atacama robotic mission in Chile, and has been an Information Designer for Coca-Cola, Hollywood.com, Heinz, Ferrari and others. He has a degree in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University and has attended the Governor's School for the Arts program at Bucknell University for painting and sculpture. He studied bronze sculpture under the tutelage of Prince Monyo Mihailescu-Nasturel in West Palm Beach, Florida. He also has interactive installations on display at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.

Artist Statement

My motivation is to discover how objects and color fit, conform and communicate. To create new language where there was void. To generate awe from something sublime.

My work is simply about the act of painting as transformation. Painting on doors represents to me the transgression from mundane to dynamic. I have chosen doors as my main painting surface in order to reinforce the metaphor of passage and transformation. The goal of my process is to discover new form and color variations that can inspire evolving compositions.