Dana Harris
Skywalk 2024
synthetic polymer paint on cotton and linen
Courtesy of the artist

Dana Harris
Skywalk 2024
synthetic polymer paint on cotton and linen
Courtesy of the artist


Dana Harris


Skywalk 2024
synthetic polymer paint on cotton and linen
Courtesy of the artist

Artist statement:

Skywalk is from an ongoing painting project that investigates the materiality of painting while considering connections I’ve observed in the urban landscape between natural forms, architecture and public space.

In the project, I am attempting to expand the textile plane of the paintings using pre-loom hand-crafted technology including knotting, twining and binding. In building these works, I’m simultaneously developing and expanding new relationships between the contextual possibilities of the inherent languages contained in thread and paint.

In seeking to express the process of transforming the humble materials, the relationships observed in the landscape unite as structures to reflect light and defend the grid using order and repeated patterns.

The work encourages close inspection and contemplation of landscape in its complex, subtle, multi-layered open surface.