Mixed Media Collages – Available on Artsicle

As promised, I’ve just made my Curiosities Series available for purchase on Artsicle.com. There are 14 original collages still available for purchase in this series of 18 (11″X14″ matted and framed). Here’s a description of the series: This series began in the printshop by creating a library of images that suggest the idea of strangeness [...]

Parsons Festival 2012

Next week starts the 2012 inaugural Parsons Festival featuring undergraduate and graduate work from students across a range of disciplines. I plan to make it to a few select openings (see favorites below). It should be an eventful few weeks of great emerging talent! Here’s details: Parsons Festival 2012 showcases extraordinary work by students from [...]

Lucky Magazine: Deal of the Day!

Starting at 11:00am EST Tuesday November 22nd, Lucky Magazine will be giving out a discount code to my shop of 50% off everything. To take advantage visit luckymag.com and click on ‘Deal of the Day’ to access the code for 24 hours. There’s art prints, hand-printed pillows and box set greeting cards for sale – [...]

Show at Matters of Space: Los Angeles

I’m thrilled to announce that my work will be shown this upcomming weekend at Matter’s of Space in Los Angeles. All eighteen mixed-media collages from the Curiosities Series will be on display. Details on the opening reception to follow.

Dana McClure Shop Launch!!

Hey Everyone! I’m very excited to finally launch a full online shop of my latest work. This mostly includes archival pigment prints of original monoprints and mixed media collages, limited edition serigraphs, as well as hand-printed textiles. Now that it’s up and running, I plan to add new pieces often so please stop by and [...]

More Mixed-Media Collages

Just finished two more mixed media collages towards my Curiosities Series. (silkscreen, rice paper, watercolor)

A New Collage Series: Curiosities

I’m working on a new collage series that aims to abstract organic forms found in nature while using the screenprinting process as a way to explore endless variations in color, transparency, frequency and order. Here are a few finished pieces…

Holly Wales Sketchbook

Back to Holly Wales’s site to take a look at her sketchbooks. Beautiful. Hope this is inspiring to my students…

Arturo Herrera: Berlin Singers

The work of  Venezuelan artist Arturo Herrera, was by far my favorite at this year’s Editions/Artists’ Books Fair. Presented by The Lower East Side Printshop, Herrera’s piece “Berlin Singers,” is a series of ten prints that combine etching, screenprint, archival inkjet, and collage. The edition is a set of 20.

Marian Bantjes: 70

Beautiful work from one of my favorite designers, Marian Bantjes. This illustration was created for the New York Times Week Review in response to the following summary: “In many ways Ringo turning 70 and celebrating by playing radio city is exactly the kind of counterpoint that gerontologists like Robert Butler, who died this week, dreamed [...]

Rosemarie Fiore: Firework Drawings

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These are pretty incredible. Drawings created by exploding live fireworks, by Rosemarie Fiore. Found via Boooooom.

Katina Huston

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Some beautiful mixed-media work by Katina Huston made of hair and enamel.

Michael Scott

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I just missed this great show of Michael Scott’s work at Gering and Lopez Gallery. These paintings are made with enamel on aluminum. I love their imperfections and how the process is revealed.

Pauline Galiana

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This project by Pauline Galiana is a beatiful example of repurposing material from one project to complete another. Very inspiring. A film by Richard Devereaux documents her process. “Natural sounds and natural lighting inform this elegiac mediation on making — on art formulated and gridded from the detritus of painting. This meticulously-paced video by Richard [...]

Katharina Trudzinski

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Stunning painting, sculpture and installation work by Hamburg-based artist, Katharina Trudzinski. ~ via Dropular

Christopher Bettig

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I love the colors, texture and geometric forms of these paintings and collages from artist/designer Christopher Bettig of The Mountain Label. Great work! ~ via Design Milk ~

Studio.

Dana McClure is a Brooklyn-based visual artist and designer working across a variety of disciplines including graphic design, printmaking, and time-based media. This archive is a shared collection of experiences, people and places that drive her work.

Shop.

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Friends.

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