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"I tell stories, I document history, I express my reactions to the world through my paintings.
Although not as readily accepted (as the decorative arts), I believe it holds an undeniably vital place in American culture."
-Interview with Dana Ellyn from Black Cat Bone |
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"Every day that month, the duo would scour the front page of the Washington Post, then get busy putting their brushes to canvas,
each illustrating their own colorful-yet-totally-sick-and-twisted views on the day's news"
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-Chris Shott, Washington City Paper Click to read the entire article from the Washington City Paper
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"Dana Ellyn is peeling away the art school compulsion to make, and hide behind, pretty pictures."
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- Jim Magner, The Hill Rag Click to read entire
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"(Kaufman's paintings are) extremely acidic, caustic and pointed commentaries with provocative titles
married to insane figurative paintings."
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- Review of ArtOMatic
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"Dana Ellyn Kaufman's wonderfully, almost cartoon-like figures, with their deft ideas and imagery..."
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- Tony Harvey, "The Intowner" Click to read entire
article from the Intowner |
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"The news stories are springboards for what, considered as a whole,
is a quintessentially D.C. endeavor: art that comments on world affairs"
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- Matthew Summers, Washington City Paper Click to read entire
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"[One] of the most
extraordinary and dedicated fulltime artists I have come across in Washington, DC... "
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- Jeannie Smith, Poetic Inhalation |
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"Censorship is nothing new for Kaufman.
Two years ago, she says, her painting, titled Pick 3, was removed from the National Press Club after members complained
about the image, which depicted a young girl tugging on her wedgied underwear." |
- Chris Shott, Washington City Paper
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The Washington City Paper, caught wind of my story about my painting,
"Exposed",
that was pulled from a show at the GW University Breast Care Center in May 2004. He interviewed me and wrote the
following article. Unfortunately, after a heated debate among City Paper editors, they decided not to run the story
due to worries that it was "insensitive." |
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"What's important to me is painting. I want to leave behind a body of work that documents my life and the times I experienced."
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- Dana Ellyn, Interview with Cool Town Studios
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