Biography

Dana Kotler is a painter and sculptor, working in her studio in Hoboken. She was born in Odessa, Ukraine and grew up in Jerusalem, Israel. Dana is a two time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and exhibits at a variety of venues. Dana has been teaching university courses around the US and in Ireland Most of Dana's work wants to live somewhere in between figuration and abstraction, clarity and ambiguity, flatness and sculpture. Each piece develops intuitively, and the process is a means to try and understand some aspect of life. It feels very much like playing and is akin to thinking out loud. The work usually wants to possess some space of ambiguity. Dana wants to provide the viewer with a freedom of interpretation, and a space to impose their own associations or meanings upon the work. It would probably benefit the viewer to make the very safe assumption that nothing is sure, and that knowledge can distort our vision, letting perception be based on observation, intuition and visceral logic, rather than informed expectations.