Dana Matthew’s artistic vision manifests itself in various forms, but throughout her career an unflinching allegiance to the feminine divine and a sacred sense of responsibility to and for the natural world has been an unbroken thread through her work. Born in Alabama, where she received a BFA, then on to RISD where she received her MFA, she has called New York her second home for nearly 30 years. Her first memories of intimacy and connection are with the land of her Alabama family farm. This connection to land shaped her creative journey, and continues to anchor who she is and how she responds in the world today.

 

Currently, she has a photography show at The Farmers Museum in Cooperstown, NY and a solo show at Opus 40 in Saugerties, NY. Before that she exhibited work at Maryland Institute College of Art. The exhibition Locus amoenus, challenged conventional notions of what it means to be human in the endless cycle of life. Dana has participated in various shows from Hudson, NY to the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden Holland. She is represented in domestic and international collections and has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States, including the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Chashama and ACA gallery in NYC. 

Blue Goddess
2023
Photograph and drawing printed on fabric
Sun Goddess
2023
Photograph and drawing printed on fabric
Seed Bearing Goddess
2023
Scanograph and drawing printed on fabric
Carrion Cactus
2018
Scanograph
Ice Box Falls
2021
Photograph
Mahicantuck, from the series “The Pursuit is Holy”
2020
Photograph
Mahicantuck, from the series “The Pursuit is Holy”
2019
Photograph
Mahicantuck, from the series “The Pursuit is Holy”
2020
Photograph
Mahicantuck, from the series “The Pursuit is Holy”
2019
Photograph
Mahicantuck, from the series “The Pursuit is Holy”
2019
Photograph
Mahicantuck, from the series “The Pursuit is Holy”
2019
Photograph
Mahicantuck, from the series “The Pursuit is Holy”
2021
Photograph
Mahicantuck, from the series “The Pursuit is Holy”
2019
Photograph
Forest dwelling Triptych
2017
Unique hand-colored silver gelatin prints, moss, stones, bark, branches, sculpted hands, 11 chandelier bulbs, wooden ladder, multiple 5 x 7 bird drawings on paper, Pine table 9 ft. x 2 ft.
Three framed 30” x 40”
2018
Unique Hand-painted sepia-toned photographs mounted on canvas supported by drift poles plucked and turned by and from the Mahicantuck with found feathers
Three 30’ x 30’
Motherland
2022
Unique hand-painted photograph on canvas
3.5 ft x 10 ft
To Close Windows Anywhere (after Edna Vincent Millet)
2020
Unique photographs, oil, clay and ink on canvas
Triptych 48” x 144”
First the Flesh and Last the Breath
2019
Archival pigment print on canvas
Photographic triptych 40" x 120"

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