Uriel Dana
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Biography
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Uriél Danā
http://www.urieldana.com
urieldana@gmail.com
415-754-3505
Uriél Danā has been honored for her work as a fine artist, writer, and lecturer for more than three decades. Her oils, gouache, and lost wax bronze work has been shown in 12 countries on 4 continents. She is a former U.S. State Department Ambassador to the Arts under the former Arts America Program.
Her oil paintings and drawings are included in dozens of private, corporate, and celebrity art collections. In October 2015 two of her paintings were selected for the Carousel de Louvre exhibition in Paris, and she was included in the catalogue Modern Art Masters in Complex Musée du Louvre. Her work was included in the landmark exhibit "The Otherworld" (link) featuring the history of Visionary Art. The exhibit spanned 2021-2022 at the Roland Gallery in Los Angeles' California Lutheran College. From 2022 to 2023 one of her drawings was featured in the Small Works exhibit at the MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art) in Barcelona, Spain.
After serving in the United States Air Force, Uriel attended Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco, studied Sculpture, Museum Management, & Art History at College of Marin, Kentfield, and apprenticed 4 yrs with California Surrealist Master Painter, Gage Taylor in Marin. In addition to her own art career, she was known for her painting collaborations with the late Gage Taylor under the name Taylor-Dana.
Her current work is inspired by San Francisco's nouveau cirque culture.
A few of her honorary mentions include:
International Woman of the Year (nominee 4 times)
Outstanding People of the 20th Century
Outstanding Achievement Awards
Outstanding Achievement in the Fine Arts
The Twentieth Century Award for Achievement
Who's Who of American Art
Who's Who of American Women
Who's Who in America
2,000 Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th century
International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women
2000 Outstanding Women of the Twentieth Century
Who's Who of Executives and Professionals 2007
(For fine art restoration of easel paintings.)
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Statement
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A sleeping disorder led me to a decades-long practice of Tibetan Dream Yoga. As a child I suffered from parasomnia and somnambulism; nightmares that resulted in walking in my sleep until I was 23 years old.
My mother located the only Tibetan Monk on the North Side of Chicago. He taught me to navigate through the mysterious nocturnal worlds I found myself swimming in. I learned how to remain conscious while in a sleep state and recognize the dream while awake. This helped me evolve out of a life-controlling sleep disorder. You might say it was the first art I mastered.
As a result, I have always gravitated to the surreal and those that participate in the world with a unique vision. Initially, I painted the archetypal relationship with our spiritual selves and this evolved into painting our relationship to our inner male/female connection. I then explored painting our relationship to our own creativity; inspired by San Francisco's cirque nouveau culture.
After the destruction of millions of acres of forests and its denizens in California, followed by my losing a year and a half battle to save a grove of old-growth trees, my relationship with nature changed. The blur between the physical world and the spirit world has become the focus of my paintings. We can not be balanced or healthy when we remove our relationship to nature. We must all learn to exist in the fault lines or bardos between two existing worlds.
"Beauty and art matter to me; it is the soul of a culture and is especially important during times of poverty or war. Helping people re-learn how to connect their inner and outer world by visual literacy is vital to our growth as a species".
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Exhibitions
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Full CV available at https://www.urieldana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Uriel-Dana-Full-Artist-Biography.pdf
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