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Dana Holst
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Dancing Girls is a look into the plight of the private-fantasy-world of young girls, ballerina-world, where dressing in silky tutus, leads to dreams of beauty and perfection.A world which collides heavily with reality, as each girl is conditioned to
society's demands.
In the past Holst's work has dealt with issues of femininity and sexual stereotypes, focusing on the training of little girls to behave, dress and act properly.Her paintings and prints depicted pensive little girls in pretty
dresses who brandished household items such as mops and brooms while emulating their mommies.At first glance her girls appear blissful and happy, but upon closer inspection this veneer pales to reveal inner anger and fire as can be found in her current
grouping of prints on pretty pink paper titled Dancing Girls.
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Flower Baby
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49 x 36 cm (paper size)
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Lithograph
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$350 (Unframed)
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Uncle Harold
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25 x 25 cm (paper size)
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Lithograph
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$250 (Unframed)
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Clique
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17 x 22 Inches (paper size)
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Lithograph
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$450 (Unframed)
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Yum Yum
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17 x 22 Inches (paper size)
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Lithograph
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$450 (Unframed)
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She Devil
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17 x 11 Inches (paper size)
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Lithograph
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$350 (Unframed)
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Crocuses
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17 x 11 Inches (paper size)
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Lithograph
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$350 (Unframed)
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Angel
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17 x 11 Inches (paper size)
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Lithograph
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$350 (Unframed)
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Honey Bee
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17 x 11 Inches (paper size)
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Lithograph
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$350 (Unframed)
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Education
Honors B.A. Fine Arts University of Waterloo (1995 Graduate)
Grants, Awards
2005 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Project Grant
2004 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Project Grant
2001 Canada Council Travel Grant (Girl’s Own, Hamilton)
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Hamilton Artists' Inc.)
Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grant (Emerging)
Toronto Arts Council Visual Arts Grant (Level 1)
Canada Council Visual Arts Grant (Emerging)
2000 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Hamilton Artists' Inc.)
Best in Show Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto
Honorable Mention Ernst & Young, Great Canadian Printmaking Competition
1999 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (VAO, Toronto)
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Power Plant, Toronto)
Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grant (Emerging)
Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Rothesay, New Brunswick
1998 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (A Space, Toronto)
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Hart House, Toronto)
Open Studio Nick Novack Scholarship (Lithography)
Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Rothesay, New Brunswick
1997 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton)
Print Award Blackwood Gallery, Paperbacked / Paperbound
1996 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (The Library and Gallery, Cambridge)
Open Studio Don Phillips Scholarship (Lithography)
Various awards from 1994-1995
Selected Collections
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Alberta
Anges Etherington Art Centre Kingston, Ontario
Art Bank, Canada Council, Ottawa
Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
Colart Collection, Montreal
Ernst & Young Toronto, Ontario
Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto, Ontario
Sin-Forest Corporation Mississauga, Ontario
J.M. Schneiders Kitchener, Ontario
University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario
Various private collections in North America
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Spider Girls, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto Ontario
Figures IV, Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa Ontario
2003 Group Exhibition, Galerie St. Laurent + Hill Group Exhibition
Heat, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto Ontario
2001 Girl’s Own, Hamilton Artists' Inc., with Bonnie Lewis & Eliza Griffiths, Hamilton Ontario
Waiting for your Tongue, James Baird Gallery, St. John's, NF
Interrupted Viewing, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, with Darlene Cole curated by Carole Podedworny, Waterloo Ontario
2000 Loaded, The Angell Gallery, Toronto Ontario
Intersections - Montreal/Toronto, curated by Francine Paul & Herb Sigman
1999 Gallery 96 Retrospective, Gallery Stratford, curated by Sandra Margolian, Stratford Ontario
Works on Paper, Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver BC
Fresh, The Angell Gallery, curated by Jessica Wyman, Paintings, Toronto Ontario
4 days at the white house, 11 Jersey Avenue, curated by Eileen Sommerman, Toronto Ontario
1998 Lucky, The Angell Gallery, with Chantal Rousseau, Paintings, Toronto Ontario
Social Secrets, Gallery 96, Stratford Ontario
Social Secrets, Meg Gallery, curated by Dana Holst and Judith Mullett, Toronto Ontario
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006 Woebegone, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto Ontario
Pounding, Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa Ontario
2004 Dancing Girls, Act I, Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa Ontario
Dancing Girls, Act II, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto Ontario
2003 Dolly, Vanderleelie Gallery , Edmonton Alberta
2002 Baby Doll Project, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto Ontario
Baby Doll Project, Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa Ontario
2000 Showdown, Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa Ontario
1999 Wrestle, The Angell Gallery, Toronto Ontario
Boudoir, OS Gallery (Open Studio), Toronto Ontario
Suite Ecstasy / Suite Bliss, The Red Head Showcase, Toronto Ontario
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