About Me
Dana Idlet received her BFA in painting from the University of Tulsa in 2008. The recipient of a Gussman award for artistic merit, she has had her paintings and cardboard collages exhibited at galleries in the Tulsa area including Self Gallery, Scooties and 209. She has a studio at the Fayetteville Underground currently and exhibits new work each month. Dana is also an accomplished photographer. She recently returned to where she grew up, six miles down a dirt road in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains.
Artist Statement
I see lines everywhere, in rocks, maps, veins, roots, cuts of fish, petals, and leaves. My interest in lines sparked ideas of representing growth drought, scars, timelines, and personal history in the tree rings. Like trees, people extend themselves, move toward light, branch, are marred, go without, and heal. The parallels have moved me. By drawing imagined rings and lines, some more realistic than others, I have begun to draw connections between recorded human experience and the histories revealed in what seem on the surface to be simple cross sections of cedar.