About

Dana Piazza creates abstract drawings depicting the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His meticulous drawings on paper, panel, and canvas are composed following algorithms conceived by the artist, allowing a predetermined set of instructions to facilitate an unknown outcome. Explorations of chance, discovery and time emerge throughout each tangential series of drawings, each of which alludes to recognizable patterns or textures. Piazza’s color palettes are often semi-monochromatic, further exemplifying his strategic compositions. Unintentional changes in mark-making are inevitable and create distorted images that resemble 3D renderings which optically seem to move. The fallibility of the hand is integral to the development of each composition: one mark leads to the next and the next, resulting in a dense yet unified balance of chaos and control.

Dana Piazza lives and works in Lenox, Massachusetts. He has exhibited in solo exhibitions at Soapbox Arts in Burlington, Vermont,  Jennifer Terzian Gallery in Litchfield, Connecticut, Art Austerlitz in Austerlitz, New York, Thompson Giroux Gallery in Chatham, New York, and Room 68 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Upcoming shows include a two-person exhibition with Tamara Zahaykevich at Turley Gallery in Hudson, New York in 2023, and a solo exhibition with Bernay Fine Art in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 2024. His numerous group exhibitions include Flat Files at OyG at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, New York, Concentrated at Galerie Manqué in Brooklyn, New York, Art on Paper with Muriel Guépin Gallery in New York, New York, and Guilty Pleasures at Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Dana Piazza received a BFA magna cum laude from the School of Art+Design at Purchase College in 2010.