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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/painter-dana-oldfather-shows-her-evol
 ving-landscapes-at-abattoir-gallery/
SUMMARY:Painter Dana Oldfather Shows Her Evolving Landscapes at Abattoir Ga
 llery
DESCRIPTION:\nFri 3/14 @ 6-8PM\nCleveland’s Dan Oldfather is a self-taugh
 t painter without the usual art school credentials.  But she’s already 
 won awards\, shown in prestige venues such as moCa Cleveland and Bonfoey G
 allery\, as well as galleries in New York\, Chicago and Detroit\, and even
  got some ink in The New York Times for her colorful\, motion-filled abstr
 actions created from oil\, acrylics\, spray paint and ink.\nNow Abattoir G
 allery\, where she had a show in 2023 called Violet Hour\, is presenting i
 ts second solo show with her\, titled De Novo. She’s moved away from abs
 traction to landscapes still imbued by an abstract quality that makes them
  mysterious\, elusive\, and\, to use the gallery’s description\, “othe
 rworldy.”\n“I communicate the dilemma of being through landscape\,” 
 the artist says. “I bring my insides to bear on the outside and trepidat
 ion colors the scene. Broodingly\, the atmosphere is thick\, and the lands
 cape psychedelically tinted like dawn\, an eclipse\, or a summer storm. Fl
 ora glows and becomes bulbous and fleshy\, petal-like and feathery in the 
 waning light. Reality is more than it seems. One follows the receding land
 scape out and away only to wash up again at the shores of one’s skin\; h
 ope\; longing\; loss. While building other worlds\, the sense of my imperm
 anence in an expansive\, mysterious universe stretches out into broader co
 ntext and I am free.”\nThe show opens with a reception on Friday March 1
 4 and will be on view through April 18.\nabattoirgallery/15-dana-oldfather
 -de-novo/works/\n[mappress mapid="2966"]
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