Dana Dart-McLean

Since Dana Dart-McLean’s first solo show at small A projects last summer, the Portland artist has received some deserved attention outside the city. In addition to a sprawling solo exhibition at Southern Oregon University, her work was featured in two high-profile international shows: the Chris Johanson-curated Solo Show Solo Soul at Galleri Nicolai Wallner in […]

At first, it’s hard to tell what makes Dana Dart-McLean’s ink, gouache, and graphite works so mesmerizing. They don’t typically dazzle with masterly production values. In fact, there’s often a willful naïveté to her approach—as if she’s painting as automatically as a daydreaming student doodles in the margins of a notebook. Similarly, there’s seldom a […]