Daniel Maidman (born 1975) is a painter and art writer who lives in
Brooklyn
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, New York.
[ His art and writing reflect eclectic tastes, with an emphasis on ]realism
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In the arts
*Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts
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Early life and education
Daniel Maidman was born in Toronto
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, Canada. He attended high school as a visual arts major at the Claude Watson School for the Arts
The Claude Watson School for the Arts (CWSA) is a public arts school for grades 4-8 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
History
The Claude Watson School for the Arts was founded in 1981 after the North York Board of Education proposed a school with a ...
, and completed a BA with honors in radio, television, and motion pictures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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. He pursued extensive mentored independent study in gross anatomy
Gross anatomy is the study of anatomy at the visible or macroscopic level. The counterpart to gross anatomy is the field of histology, which studies microscopic anatomy. Gross anatomy of the human body or other animals seeks to understand the rel ...
at Santa Monica College, completing an anatomical atlas in 2003. Illustrations from this atlas were used in the United States Army's forensic field guide, ''Identification of Deceased Personnel.'' Maidman moved to Brooklyn in 2006, and continues to live and work there.
Art
Maidman's paintings range from the figure and portrait
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ure, to still lives and landscapes, to investigations of machinery, architecture, and microflora. The images occupy a spectrum from high rendering to almost total abstraction. His work has been shown in invitational and juried exhibitions in New York, Washington DC, California, Ohio, Missouri, and Oregon. His painting Hands #1 was selected by the Saatchi Gallery to be displayed at Gallery Mess in London. The work in his 2012 Manhattan solo show ''Blue Leah'', at Dacia Gallery was reviewed as follows by The Huffington Post:
He has produced work in collaboration with installation artist Erika Johnson, author Kathleen Rooney, and actor Martin Donovan
Martin Donovan (born Martin Paul Smith; August 19, 1957) is an American actor. He has had a long collaboration with director Hal Hartley, appearing in many of his films, such as ''Trust'' (1990), '' Surviving Desire'' (1991), '' Simple Men'' (199 ...
. Several of Maidman’s life drawings, anatomical drawings, and Blue Leah paintings were shown at an invitational group show, ''The Anatomy of an Idea'', at the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, in Midland, MI, in 2013. His paintings have repeatedly been finalists in the annual figurative painting competition of ''The Artist’s Magazine''. His artwork has been published, among others, by Poets/Artists and Manifest. Maidman’s collectors include Chicago entrepreneur Howard A. Tullman, best-selling novelist China Miéville, and New York Magazine senior critic Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz (born February 19, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for '' New York'' magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for ''The Village Voice'', he received the Pu ...
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Writing
Maidman has developed a large body of writing on art, ranging from technique and criticism to philosophy and aesthetics. He takes a broad approach to art styles and movements. While his focus is figurative painting, he seeks ways to read the work he encounters regardless of idiom. This latitudinarian attitude has earned his writing followings among both the academic and contemporary arts communities.
Maidman's writing on technique has appeared at Artist Daily and been extensively published in International Artist. His criticism and general art writing appears regularly at The Huffington Post. His writing and thoughts on art have also appeared in ARTnews, Whitehot Magazine, and MAKE Literary Magazine. His writing on Da Vinci was taught at DePaul University and Roosevelt University in 2012. In 2013, he was invited to moderate the graduating fellows panel at the New York Academy of Art.Fellows Press Release.pdf
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References
External links
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Daniel Maidman Huffington Post archive
Daniel Maidman Amazon author page
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Living people
1975 births
Painters from New York (state)