Dana Piazza
Elaborations
May 24–July 12, 2024
Opening reception Saturday, May 12, 2025, 3–5 PM
TURLEY is pleased to present Elaborations, Dana Piazza’s first solo exhibition with the gallery since his representation. Piazza will present further investigations into his Lines and Squares series as well as a selection of unseen Woven Lines pieces from 2022. Piazza’s drawing practice emphasizes and expands upon a single origin mark coupled with a set of self-imposed rules that are the scaffolding for an extraordinarily comprehensive and varying body of work. Elaborations continues his systemic inclinations toward non-representational abstraction focusing on form, color, the tools of creation, and the artist’s hand.
Dana Piazza, Lines 270, 2025, pigmented ink on 300 lb hot press watercolor paper, 40 x 30 inches
Dana Piazza
Dana Piazza is a visual artist who creates abstract drawings and paintings on paper, panel, and canvas through a process of open-ended experimentation, repeating simple marks with brushes, markers, pens, and nibs. The meticulous forms that Piazza assembles on his flat surfaces depict the illusion of depth and movement; they seem voluminous, carrying significant visual weight. He approaches each work as though it were both a puzzle and an experiment, and lets the materials and tools determine the process.
Dana Piazza, Lines 271, 2025, pigmented ink on 300 lb hot press watercolor paper, 40 x 30 inches
Dana Piazza lives and works in Lenox, Massachusetts. His work has previously appeared in solo exhibitions at Art Austerlitz in Austerlitz, New York; Thompson Giroux Gallery in Chatham, New York; and Jennifer Terzian Gallery in Litchfield, Connecticut. His numerous group exhibitions include Flat Files at OyG at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn; Concentrated at Galerie Manqué in Brooklyn; Art on Paper at Muriel Guépin Gallery in New York City; and Guilty Pleasures at Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His work was recently featured at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in their exhibiton Desire Lines, alongside artists Alex Callender, Nandini Chirimar, Tara Geer, Maggie Nowinski, and James Siena. He also exhibited at Dallas Art Fair 2025 with TURLEY alongside artists Michael Cuadrado, Evan Halter, Liu Kincheloe, and Ruby Palmer. Piazza received a BFA from Purchase College, State University of New York.