Dana Wood Zinsser "Splendor in the Skunk Cabbage"
pen, watercolor, gloss medium on panel, 24" x 36", 2021, $666 - SALE PENDING
Artist Statement
Through the meditation of stippling I relieve inner tensions. I create abstracted figures out of minuscule dots. A sense of universal frustration is depicted through their strained, writhing faces, often gazing up, seeking transcendence, seeking to dispel the body. I deconstruct bodily forms in an attempt to glorify the formation that my subjects are trying to escape. My work glorifies excess by illustrating piles of trash, dangling totems of plastic discarded objects, mounds of flesh. I explore the resilience and boundary of the fluid body, creating mountainous, wrinkled, cobwebbed conglomerations of muscles, fat and skin consisting of tiny dots. I use symbolic objects and characters as offerings that accumulate into a cluttered shrine to grief. I employ an element of humor and kitsch, which serves as a coping mechanism for the shame retained within the body. These figures are a way for me to narrate trauma, anxiety and desires, to exorcise the shame inherited by societal cis-heteronormative standards. My subjects defy gender, embodying the trauma and fury inherent within the queer body. They represent the imprisonment and liberation of the physical self.
Artist Bio
Dana Wood Zinsser (born 1989) is a visual artist and master printer living in New York City. Zinsser's work explores the resilience of the body. Working primarily in drawing, screen printing and intaglio, Zinsser uses stippling and ink washes to create intricate, abstracted forms. Since graduating from Pratt Institute Dana has worked in many prominent New York City print shops. They have shown in many group and solo exhibitions in New York and served as a founding curator in the art collective Noodle Beaches for Meeting Witches.
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Price does NOT include tax & shipping. Contact robert@collarworks.org for shipping options and estimate.
pen, watercolor, gloss medium on panel, 24" x 36", 2021, $666 - SALE PENDING
Artist Statement
Through the meditation of stippling I relieve inner tensions. I create abstracted figures out of minuscule dots. A sense of universal frustration is depicted through their strained, writhing faces, often gazing up, seeking transcendence, seeking to dispel the body. I deconstruct bodily forms in an attempt to glorify the formation that my subjects are trying to escape. My work glorifies excess by illustrating piles of trash, dangling totems of plastic discarded objects, mounds of flesh. I explore the resilience and boundary of the fluid body, creating mountainous, wrinkled, cobwebbed conglomerations of muscles, fat and skin consisting of tiny dots. I use symbolic objects and characters as offerings that accumulate into a cluttered shrine to grief. I employ an element of humor and kitsch, which serves as a coping mechanism for the shame retained within the body. These figures are a way for me to narrate trauma, anxiety and desires, to exorcise the shame inherited by societal cis-heteronormative standards. My subjects defy gender, embodying the trauma and fury inherent within the queer body. They represent the imprisonment and liberation of the physical self.
Artist Bio
Dana Wood Zinsser (born 1989) is a visual artist and master printer living in New York City. Zinsser's work explores the resilience of the body. Working primarily in drawing, screen printing and intaglio, Zinsser uses stippling and ink washes to create intricate, abstracted forms. Since graduating from Pratt Institute Dana has worked in many prominent New York City print shops. They have shown in many group and solo exhibitions in New York and served as a founding curator in the art collective Noodle Beaches for Meeting Witches.
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Price does NOT include tax & shipping. Contact robert@collarworks.org for shipping options and estimate.
pen, watercolor, gloss medium on panel, 24" x 36", 2021, $666 - SALE PENDING
Artist Statement
Through the meditation of stippling I relieve inner tensions. I create abstracted figures out of minuscule dots. A sense of universal frustration is depicted through their strained, writhing faces, often gazing up, seeking transcendence, seeking to dispel the body. I deconstruct bodily forms in an attempt to glorify the formation that my subjects are trying to escape. My work glorifies excess by illustrating piles of trash, dangling totems of plastic discarded objects, mounds of flesh. I explore the resilience and boundary of the fluid body, creating mountainous, wrinkled, cobwebbed conglomerations of muscles, fat and skin consisting of tiny dots. I use symbolic objects and characters as offerings that accumulate into a cluttered shrine to grief. I employ an element of humor and kitsch, which serves as a coping mechanism for the shame retained within the body. These figures are a way for me to narrate trauma, anxiety and desires, to exorcise the shame inherited by societal cis-heteronormative standards. My subjects defy gender, embodying the trauma and fury inherent within the queer body. They represent the imprisonment and liberation of the physical self.
Artist Bio
Dana Wood Zinsser (born 1989) is a visual artist and master printer living in New York City. Zinsser's work explores the resilience of the body. Working primarily in drawing, screen printing and intaglio, Zinsser uses stippling and ink washes to create intricate, abstracted forms. Since graduating from Pratt Institute Dana has worked in many prominent New York City print shops. They have shown in many group and solo exhibitions in New York and served as a founding curator in the art collective Noodle Beaches for Meeting Witches.
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