NAME: Dana Maiden
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BIOGRAPHY
Dana Maiden lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She earned a BA in Visual Arts, Art History and English from Columbia University and an MFA in Sculpture and Photography from Claremont Graduate University. Using photography as a tool for investigating the way spatial relationships can be perceived, Dana creates sculptures that hover between two and three dimensions. By collapsing the space between disparate objects, perception is destabilized and new correspondences are fused. The flat facades of photography invite the artist to imagine what might happen on the other side, and she often explores the way concrete, everyday objects can serve as models for understanding abstract ideas like space, time and consciousness.
Dana is the 2008 recipient of the Lorser and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Fellowship, and recently had a solo exhibition entitled A Lamp is Put in Place of the Sun at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall Park. Her work is currently being shown at the UCR California Museum of Photography as a part of the show Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture. Upcoming exhibitions include Cut: Makings of Removal at the Vincent Price Art Museum and Cycling Apparati at High Energy Constructs + Solway Jones Gallery. Dana is currently an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Art Center in Aspen, Colorado.
