Dana Roes, the newly appointed Dean of Arts, held her inaugural exhibition in Arizona at the LC Bernal Gallery, Pima Community College, from January to March 2025. Her abstract paintings delve into the essence of human existence. Much like our journey through life—navigating transitions, embodying resilience, and seeking meaning—Roes’ work explores these themes through introspective layers of color and texture. She strives to capture a sense of energetic tranquility reflecting on the dualities of hope and disappointment. Her paintings are just like our lives. They bear the marks of wounds in in the process of healing, evoking the quiet strength found in persistence and renewal as we continue to live.
After spending her entire career as an abstract painter, Dana Roes finds herself drawn to something new—something ancient, even.
" I've become fascinated by the idea of solid material—matter that existed long before life as we know it," she explains. "There's something subversive and deeply alluring about it." Her work has always explored the intersection of psychological and physical space, as well as her own place within it. A recurring theme in her art is the presence of voids—missing pieces, unreachable spaces, or things that simply can’t be known. “It might be the psychological space a lie creates, the strange tension of multiple realities, or that indescribable feeling I get when I close my eyes and face the sun,” she says. “What continues to drive my work is this resistance to being contained, and the constant pull toward expansion .”Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions throughout the States as well as in Sweden, Australia, and China and she has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Gallery Listamistodim in Iceland, the Fay Gold Gallery in Atlanta, the Larry Siroli Gallery in Chelsea and the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery in Ft. Myers, Florida.
You can check her website to learn more about her art:
https://www.danaroes.com/
Producer: Özlem Ayşe Özgür
Videographer: Özlem Ayşe Özgür, Diana Cadena
Editor: Robert Lindberg
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