statement

Through drawing from the live model, I seek myself, as a person and an artist. By refining my eye and hand, I am able to question my assumptions about art and the visual, and intuit where my projects, figurative or not, want to go next. This process of exploration is always a pleasure, and a key goal has been to communicate that pleasure in drawings that celebrate the vitality, variety, and beauty of the human form.

bio

born: 1975, Toronto, Canada

education

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, BA, 1995

selected awards/honors

Guest curator, Poets/Artists magazine, November 2015
1st place winner, Works on Paper, group show, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, California, 2014
Inclusion in 40 "Artists for MOCA's Consideration," in art critic John Seed's "A Modest Proposal for MOCA: Show More Representational Paintings," published in The Huffington Post, 2013
Panel moderator, 2013 Fellows Panel Talk, New York Academy of Art, 2013

selected publications

American Art Collector, "Nunc Veritatem," 2015
Whitehot Magazine, "Daniel Maidman: Recent Drawings at Dacia Gallery," Kathleen Massara, 2015
Symbol and Aesthetics, "Daniel Maidman's Meiosis #1: Her Snail Familiar," Claudia Avila, 2015
International Artist, "Preparing for your Solo Show" with Lee Vasu, 2015

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Dacia Gallery, Recent Drawings (solo), New York, New York, 2015
Sidetracked Studio Gallery, Endless Days, Sleepless Nights (three-person), Evanston, Illinois, 2014
Dacia Gallery, Blue Leah (solo), New York, New York, 2012
SPACE 101 Gallery, small neighbors/Microbiota (two-person), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

selected group shows

Portraits Inc., Blue Drawings, New York, New York, 2015
Elga Wimmer Gallery, 60 Americans, New York, New York, 2015
New York Academy of Art/Sotheby's, Take Home a Nude, New York, New York, 2015
Flowers Gallery, Small is Beautiful, New York, New York, 2015