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Dana Wigdor is a painter who lives and works in Vermont.  Wigdor was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and earned her BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute in 1990, and her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2008. 

She has exhibited both nationally and internationally.  In 2003 The Fleming Museum in Burlington and the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center both featured her artist’s talk “The Anthropomorphic Machine” where Wigdor introduced the mystifying ‘creatures’ that populate her image world spanning across twenty years of work. 

Wigdor states, “Paint is a perfect medium for capturing the invisible forces that surround us.  The canvas is a stage where color and light build a bridge between what is tangible and the elusive place ‘beyond’.  This can be understood as outer space, as heaven, as after life, or more abstractly, as simply somewhere out there.”

In 2003 she was a finalist in the National Museum of Women in the Arts “From the States” program and in 2004, Wigdor received a Vermont Arts Council, National Endowment of the Arts Creation Grant.  In 2006 Dana Wigdor’s solo exhibition “Liminal Places” was featured at the Vermont Arts Council’s Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

Education
MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts, 2008
School of Visual Arts, Painting in New York Summer Studio Residency, 1998
BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1990
 
Exhibitions
2008 Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT, “Graduate Exhibition"
2006 The Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, VT, “Liminal Places” solo exhibition
2005 The Windham Art Gallery, Brattleboro, VT, “Dana Wigdor, Earth and Sky” solo exhibition
2004 Gallery in the Woods, Brattleboro, VT
2004 The Windham Art Gallery, Brattleboro, VT, “New Members Show”
2003 Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT, “Spirited Women:  Ten Vermont Artists”
2003 Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, “Ten Vermont Women, Sculpture, Painting & Craft”
2003 The Windham Art Gallery, Brattleboro, VT, “Shared Inspiration”
2002 Gallery in the Woods, Marlboro, VT, “Group Exhibition”
2002 Collected Works, Brattleboro VT, “New Paintings” solo exhibition
1998 Jonathan Shorr Gallery, NYC, “Art Discoveries”
1998 School of Visual Arts, NYC, “Painting in New York Summer Studio Residency Open Studios”
1998 Kunst und Technik, 2-3 Monbijoustrasse, Berlin
1998 L Gallery, 26 Octyabrskaya St. Moscow, Russia
1997 The Ridge Street Gallery, NYC, “La Grande Salon”
1997 The Tunnel, NYC, “Vision 21 Series”
1990 The San Francisco Art Institute, “Group Invitational”
   
Awards / Presentations
2008 Finalist: ART OF ACTION.  The Vermont Arts Council is collaborating with philanthropist Lyman Orton to commission ten visual artists to create suites of artwork that address issues identified by Vermonters as essential to the state's future.
2004 Vermont Arts Council, National Endowment of the Arts “Creation Grant”
2003 Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT – slide presentation: 
“The Anthropomorphic Machine”
2003 The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT – slide presentation: 
“Spirited Women at Work”
2003 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.  From the States program, “Finalist”
2002 “New Directions ’02, 18th Annual Juried Competition” – Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

 

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