Cleveland-based painter whose work explores impermanence and transformation through luminous, atmospheric landscapes. Oldfather's art reflects the tension between fragility, upheaval, and expansive freedom.
I've always felt a little off-balance and untethered, like the ground is falling or a breeze could pick me up. ...I communicate the dilemma of being through landscape.
Dana Oldfather is a painter whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in galleries and museums such as Library Street Collective in Detroit, Zg Gallery in Chicago, Kathryn Markel Fine Art in New York, The McDonough Museum of Art in Youngstown, The Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, and The University of Southern Queensland in Australia. Her achievements include the William and Dorothy Yeck Award for Young Painters, two Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, and most recently, a Satellite Fund Emergency Relief Grant supported by SPACES Gallery, The Warhol Foundation, and The Cleveland Foundation.
Her work has been featured in Beautiful/Decay, ArtMaze Magazine (London), and in Lori Zimmer’s book The Art of Spray. She has also exhibited at major art fairs in Houston, Miami, Palm Beach, and New York, including Art on Paper. Oldfather’s paintings are held in numerous public, corporate, and private collections worldwide, with notable acquisitions by Eaton Corporation, MGM International, Bedrock Detroit, The Cleveland Clinic, and the Progressive Art Collection.
