Discipline: Visual Art

Dana Matthews

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999
More: www.danamatthews.com
Dana Matthews is an American photographer. For the past 30 years she has worked with her cameras creating photographs and installations that are related to the environment and the sensitive time that we live in. She chooses to practice traditional and alternative processes such as wet-plate collodion, cyanotypes, and gelatin silver printing as well as digital medias. In June 2016 she had a solo show at Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY. The show titled “Cyanotypes; An Homage to Anna Atkins” featured her unique cyanotypes as well as her eco-friendly cyanotype clothing. In October 2016 The Albany Airport displayed 25 of her New York Landscapes as part of the Landmarks exhibition. Also, in 2016 “One Farm; One Decade” opened at TK Home and Garden in Hudson, NY. In September 2017 her solo exhibition at The Tivoli Artist Gallery titled “Dissonance” opened. The show featured large-scale, unique hand-pained silver gelatin prints and two installations.

Studios

Putnam

Dana Matthews worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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