Daniella Woolf – Artist Statement

I limit the materials I use to create my work. These self-imposed restrictions increase my ability to investigate expression. Integral to my practice is daily handwritten journaling. I deconstruct this information, fragmenting and restructuring language. The secret contents are intact yet undecipherable.

I bring a textile sensibility to the ancient medium of encaustic. In merging these two disciplines along with my limited choice of materials, I create a newly formed language. This becomes a structural vocabulary created out of thousands of units of information. The work can manifest as large totemic installations or small intimate pieces yet retain the luminosity and transparency qualities of encaustic. Within these structures I explore identity, privacy and memory.

This amalgamation of processes transforms remnants of time, personal history and the environment into a language of artifacts and personal archaeology.

Resume

Education

• M.A. Design (Textile Structures) UCLA
• B.A. Art Cal State University, Northridge

Exhibitions

Solo:

• 2009 EcoMorphosis, Santa Cruz County Bank Paper Invitational, Museo Gallery, Langley, WA
• 2009 Away with Words, Blue Gallery, Kansas City
• 2009 Rydell Fellowships, Museum of Art and History
• 2009 X-07 Director’s Choice, MM Galleries San Francisco, CA
• 2008 The Audacity of Stripes, Artworkx, Santa Cruz, CA
• 2008 Sum of the Parts, March, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• 2008 The Diptych Project-Wax East-Wax West, Brian Marki Fine Art, Portland, Oregon & Whitney Art Works in Portland, ME
• 2008 Dots and Stripes, Mount Madonna, Watsonville, CA
• 2007 Text and Leaves, Highlands Gallery, Carmel, CA
• 2003 Encaustics, Santa Cruz County Building, Santa Cruz, CA
• 1974 Pliable Structures, Ross Freeman Gallery, Northridge, CA
• 1973 Fiber Environments, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
• 1979 Sacred Geometry, Pentangle, Los Angeles, CA
• 1978 Elements, Brand Library, Glendale, CA

Group:

• 2008 Sum of the Parts, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• 2008 The Diptych Project, Brian Marki Fine Art, Portland, OR
• 2008 The Diptych Project,Whitney Art Works in Portland, ME
• 2008 X-07 Director’s Choice, MM Galleries, San Francisco, CA
• 2007 Waxed, Los Medanos College, Los Medanos, CA
• 2007 Stand-Rugs by Artists, Gallery IMA Seattle, WA
• 2007 Hot Stuff, 301 Gallery Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
• 2007 Here and Now, MM Galleries, San Francisco, CA
• 2007 Off The Grid, Lauryn Taylor Fine Art, Carmel, CA
• 2007 Nine, Las Vegas Contemporary Arts, Las Vegas, NV
• 2007 FiberArt International, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA
• 2007 Sum of the Parts, SDA Conference, Kansas City, MO
• 2007 10th International Open, WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 2007 Exemplary Contemporary, Smith Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA
• 2006 The Fine Art of Textiles, PVAC Gallery, Watsonville, CA
• 2006 Hot Wax, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2005 Oil and Wax, Marin MOCA, November 2005
• 2005 Stars, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
• 1995 Small Works, The Pope Galley, Santa Cruz, CA
• 1987 Fiber and Photo Invitational, Santa Cruz Art Museum, CA
• 1978 Emerging Talent, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• 1977 Fiberworks, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
• 1976 Second International Exhibition of Mini Textiles, London, England
• 1975 Seventh International Biennial of Tapestry, Lausanne, Switzerland

Awards

• 2008 Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship
• 2007 Gail Rich Award for Excellence in the Arts in Santa Cruz

Collections

• Hyatt Regency Hotel, Atlanta Georgia
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
• Security Pacific National Bank
• Hyatt Kuilima Hotel, Hawaii
• Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
• Blue Cross of Southern California Headquarters
• Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne Switzerland
• Hilton Hotels, Atlanta Georgia and Baton Rouge Louisiana
• J.L. Hudson, Dearborn and Novi Michigan
• Firemans Fund, Marin, CA
• Marcel Schurman, Inc.
• University of California, Santa Cruz
• The Heart Association
• The Center to Develop Women Entrepreneurs
• Jantzen Swimwear
• KCET Public Television, Los Angeles, CA
• Sanctuary Resort and Spa, Phoenix, AZ

Publications

• 2009 Informed Source:Daniella Woolf, Surface Design Journal Winter
• 2008 Woman of Wax: Santa Cruz Sentinel
• 2007 “Encaustic: Translucent Layering with Wax”, FiberArts Magazine
• 2006 “The Fine Art of Textiles”, Santa Cruz Sentinel
• 1977 “Fiberworks 1977”, The Cleveland Museum of Art
• 1976 2nd International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles 1976, British Craft Centre
• 1975 “Tapestry Biennial at Lausanne”, Craft Horizons
• 1975 “California Crafts”, Town and Country Magazine
• 1975 7th Biennale Internationale de La Tapisserie
• 1975 Musee Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts Lausanne
• 1974 “Taking the Edge Off”, Los Angeles Times Home Magazine
• 1974 “Redefining our Living Spaces”, Art Week Magazine
• 1974 2nd International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles 1976, British Craft Centre
• 1973 “Fiberworks 1973”, Scripps College