Dana Piazza received a BFA Magna Cum Laude from the School of Art+Design at Purchase College in 2010. His work was recently exhibited in New York City by Muriel Guépin Gallery at Art on Paper, and by Galerie Manqué and Ortega y Gasset Projects. His work was also recently exhibited by Room 68 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and by Bernay Fine Art in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His work will be exhibited in New York City by Muriel Guépin Gallery at Affordable Art Fair, September 2020. His work is in flat file programs at Pierogi Gallery and Ortega y Gasset Projects in New York City. Piazza lives and works in Lenox, Massachusetts, in a home/studio in a small forest.
Dana Piazza
Born 1987, Larchmont, NY
Lives and works in Lenox, MA
EDUCATION
2010
BFA Magna Cum Laude, School of Art+Design at Purchase College, Purchase, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020
Something Red, Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
Lines and Colors, Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
Coming Soon, Art Austerlitz, Austerlitz, NY
Simple Tones, Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York, NY
Repetition, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
Affordable Art Fair, Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York, NY (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Flat Files at OyG, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2019
The Interaction Of Color, Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
Works On Paper, Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
Drawn, Room 68, Provincetown, MA (solo)
Concentrated, Galerie Manqué, Brooklyn, NY
Art on Paper, Pier 36, Muriel Guépin Gallery, Booth 107, New York, NY (art fair)
Winter Blues, Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York, NY
2018
50th Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Meshes, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Blue Black Purple, Room 68, Provincetown, MA (solo)
Abstract Mania, Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York, NY
Ink on Paper, FRG Objects & Design / Art, Hudson, NY (solo)
Guilty Pleasures, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Make Your Mark: Summer National Juried Exhibition, MarinMOCA, Novato, CA
Full Bloom, The Barn Gallery, Lenox, MA
True North, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
That's all Folks!, Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York, NY
Art on Paper, Pier 36, Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York, NY (art fair)
2018 MassArt Auction, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Between The Lines, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
30 Under 30:2, No. Six Depot Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA
2017
It's Just an Illusion!, Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York, NY
Casheesh, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Fenway Popup, Room 68, Boston, MA
Fence Select, curated by Michael Oatman, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
Fence Salon, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
Iteration, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
Emerging Artists 2017, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
AWARDS
2017
Juror’s Award, Fence Select, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
2018
Honorable Mention, Make Your Mark, MarinMOCA, Novato, CA
TEACHING
2017–2020
Intro To Conceptual Art, Berkshire Country Day School, Stockbridge, MA
I make works in series according to predetermined recursive rules. I reuse the same rules over and over, changing a few variables with each iteration.
The works are not planned out or sketched in advance. Each new mark is a repetition of the previous mark, but it’s also influenced by its surrounding marks, and there’s always a chance of human error. Once started, the work becomes a chain reaction, and it seems to have a mind of its own.
The rules themselves are developed through trial and error, and are often based on a specific drawing tool and the type of mark that tool makes most naturally.
Dana Piazza