I stepped away from making art around 2010. About 8 years later I started dabbling again and have gratefully found my way back. Painting is such a weird, difficult, surprising, fun and terrible endeavor - same as it ever was.
Contact: mini.micro.studio at gmail.com
Dana Carlson
lives and works in Queens, NYC
Education
- 2001 MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY
- 1992BFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Awards
- Vermont Studio Center residency, 2001
- William Graf travel grant (Hunter College Award), 2000
- Millay Colony residency, 1997
- The Marie Walsh-Sharpe Foundation, Space Program, 1995
- The Fine Arts Work Center, Myron Stout Fellowship, 1993-94
Exhibitions
- 2009Trick of Light, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH
Over and Under, Yard Dog Art, Austin, TX - 2008Pink Worlds, two person exhibition with Fawn Gehweiler @ Aftermodern, San Francisco, CA
- 2007Meta-Majesty, Explosivo/Chasama, NY
She was Born to be My Unicorn, Smith-Stewart, NY
Horizon, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Gallery, NY
Femmes Forces, Ai Gallery, Chicago, IL
Our Dark Heroes, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY - 2006The Norf*ckneasters Take Pluto, Pluto, Brooklyn, NY
Flight Plan, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY
Queen of Hearts, Paper Boat Gallery, Milwaukee - 2005solo exhibition, Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY
Prints and Plushies, Nonesuch, Richmond, Virginia
24 frames a second anniversary show, Here Gallery, Bristol, UK
Explosivo! Art Show, Stay Gold, Brooklyn, NY
Stitch or Swallow, Here Gallery, Bristol, UK - 2003Group Show, Monya Rowe, Brooklyn, NY
Drawings, etc., Lipstick Traces, Seattle, WA - 2002Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, etc., Lipstick Traces, Seattle, WA - 2001Peace, Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
Former Fellows, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Publications
- The Great Escape, Die Gestalten Verlag, pgs 41 and 66, 2006
- Lauren Viera, "Bring on the Rainbows," Venus magazine, no.16, Summer 2003; pgs.16-17