Dana Newmann and Dana Hart-Stone: A State of Newness

The two-person exhibition will feature works by Bay Area artist Dana Hart-Stone and Santa Fe artist Dana Newmann. Both artists are inveterate collectors of mementos from the past, such as vintage photographs and antique finds. These rescued treasures inspire new possibilities ingeniously expressed through their art. In many ways, Hart-Stone and Newmann’s works epitomize Baudelaire’s words from The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays:

“[The great artist is one] who is never for a moment without the genius of childhood — a genius for which no aspect of life has become stale (…) The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a small child absorbs form and color.”