Artists Spotlight: Dana Lynn Louis
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| Work from Dana's Faith: Suspended at The Art Gym |
Dana Lynn Louis, sculptor and public artist
Recipient RACC 2007 Project Grant; Public Art Commissions for the City of Portland in 2003 & 2004
Dana Lynn Louis works both as a studio artist, creating delicate sculpture, drawings and prints, and as a public artist. Dana has employed a variety of media including bronze, glass, mica, steel, water, tile, and landscape to create both temporary and permanent installations, and she continues to investigate new media.
Dana's projects have been increasing in scale the last several years. Her more recent commissions include Suspended Migration, a four-story multi-media installation at City Hall in Portland, Oregon; The Color of Breath, a kaleidoscope of shape and color at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Tacoma, Washington; and Essence of Our Nature, a ceramic and glass artwork at the Oregon Convention Center.
From February 25-March 28, 2007 Dana will fill The Art Gym at Marylhurst University with a major new installation, Faith: Suspended. The space will become a large installation of multi-media work, executed in glass, beads, sculptural wire forms, mica, paintings, space and light (see above). Creating images suggesting delicacy and complexity intrinsic to nature and our place in it, has been the subject of artist's work for many years.
In March 2008 Dan Lynn Louis received the prestigous Pollock-Karsner Grant from the Foundation founded by Lee Krasner in memory of her husband, Jackson Pollock. Only a few Portland artists have ever received this national award. In June 2008, Louis will have an exhibition of recent work at the Nine Gallery in Portland.
Contact Information:
website: www.4culture.org/publicart/registry/sites/sites_artist.asp?ArtistID=48
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Mary Bauer
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mbauer@racc.org
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