Dana Piazza: Introducing Dana Piazza

Gilman Contemporary will exhibit the work of Dana Piazza, a Massachusetts-based artist whose practice explores the dynamic tension between order and unpredictability. Piazza's abstract drawings and paintings created on paper, panel, and canvas, begin from a single origin mark and evolve through a meticulous process of repetition and variation. Guided by self-devised algorithms, he allows for subtle, unintentional deviations that inform the next mark. 

This chain reaction guides each work of art toward an unknown outcome, resulting in compelling illusions of depth and movement rendered in a single, richly pigmented color. Through this balance of chaos and control, Piazza investigates themes of chance, discovery, and the passage of time.