Dana Hart-Stone
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Billings, Montana, Dana Hart-Stone attended Montana State University in Bozeman, and received his B.A. from San Francisco State University in 1997. His paintings and commissions can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA and the Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“I am captivated by the narratives of people who settled the Western United States. As a child in Eastern Montana, I wandered the history-rich countryside looking for abandoned homesteads. At each site, I found fascinating evidence of difficult lives eked out on the Northern Plains. Today, this same curiosity motivates me as I mine for stories found in vintage, vernacular, photography and create paintings that make visible universal themes about unknown Americans. Friendship, community, pride, and home are some of the themes that reveal the vast topography of our shared human experience.
These investigations inform the direction of my digital paintings. Each piece is constructed of appropriated images from the discarded photographs that I collect. Color, imagery, and repetition work in unison to build a spirited pictorial dialogue. Depending on one’s proximity to a piece, the work can simultaneously function as abstraction (when far away) and realism (when near). Each work is printed onto raw canvas with UV cured acrylic ink and exists as a unique work of art.
My intent is to create paintings that evoke a sense of place, document the passing of time, and invite the viewer to engage in a developing American identity.”
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Whistle Up, 2023, UV cured acrylic ink on canvas, 48 x 48 in.
Dear Friend Lola, 2021, UV cured acrylic on canvas, 75 in.
Operetta, 2021, UV cured acrylic ink on canvas, 54 x 54 in.
Prong Horn, 2019, UV cured acrylic on canvas, 60 in.
Cow Story, 2019, UV cured acrylic on canvas, 60 in.
The Life and Times of Plaid, 2019, UV cured acrylic on canvas, 72 x 158 in.
Worthy, 2018 UV cured acrylic ink on canvas 80 x 60 in.
Bobber, 2018, UV cured acrylic ink on canvas 60 x 48 in.
Plaid-ish, 2017 UV cured acrylic ink on canvas 60 x 48 in.
SOLD
The Old Colter Place, 2014 UV cured acrylic ink on canvas 60 x 60 in.