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BIOGRAPHY
Donna Bernstein is a native New Yorker and natural artist. When in high school, she held her first one-woman show in the lobby of a local theatre. She arranged it with the manager directly, hung the art, and sold three pieces. Her lust for art was born.
She studied privately during the summers with artist Robert Dash in the art colony town of Nyack, New York; expanded her art studio and art history studies in college, worked in advertising, graphics and real estate, always continuing to draw and paint from life and her surroundings.
This was supplemented with studies in Japanese ink work and brush techniques.
After moving out west in 1998, she ramped up her art career and began marketing throughout the country, expanding her style and techniques, including working in clay and sculpture just eight years ago.
After many years of studying the equine form, working in clay was second nature to her; a piece she designed for the National Ability Center of Park City, Utah is in its permanent collection, and another piece has been chosen to grace the desk of the governor of the great state of Idaho.
Today she is drawn to abstract and contemporary expressions, her own style combining brilliant, vivid colors, dynamic forms, suggestive gestures and timeless subjects. Whether using a combination of brushes, breyers, plaster knives or her own two hands, her style is unique, creative and modern.
"MOST RECENTLY, DONNA HAS BEEN HONORED WITH THE PLACEMENT OF HER CONTEMPORARY EQUINE SCULPTURE, "GOSLING", IN THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE AT THE STATEHOUSE IN BOISE, IDAHO. The piece sits handsomely on the Governor's desk."
