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MiriamDema.com is the creative vision of Miriam Dema McDaniel. She works primarily in printmaking with a focus of screen printing on found and altered surfaces. She also paints and draws in a variety of mediums. The process of assembling, drawing and photographing results in a diverse group of work encompassing limited edition screen prints, drawings, paintings, site-specific sculptural installations, photography and short film. A Northern Californian at heart Miriam Dema was raised in a creative family where she remembers her earliest toys being an old marble collection, small wooden toys and her grandmother’s very elaborate dress-up trunk. Her memories are filled with images of treasure buried in forgotten boxes and in long neglected books. |
Miriam Dema went to college in Washington D.C. at The Corcoran College of Art and Design. After graduating from college in 2001 she returned to Northern California. She maintained a busy studio at the Dutch Boy Studios in East Oakland for 5 years. While living in Oakland she was instrumental in organizing several group shows and open studios.
2006 brought Miriam Dema to the Los Angeles area with her studio in tow, soon to set up shop in the woods above Los Angeles. She does all of her screen printing from start to finish herself, including graphic work, exposing screens and printing. Miriam Dema spends her days running two busy businesses while trying not to get distracted by the wildlife just outside her studio door.
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Education
B.F.A., Corcoran College of Art and Design - Washington, D.C., 2001
Graduated with Honors, 3.5/4.0 GPA
2008
Silverlake Art and Craft - Silverlake CA December 2008
Unique LA - Los Angeles CA December 2008
Craft Riot - West Hollywood CA December 2008
Felt Club XL Winter - The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles CA November 2008
The Brewery Art Walk - The Brewery Studios, Los Angeles CA, November 2008
Village Venture - Claremont CA, October 2008
The Bee Cause - South Pasadena CA, September 2008
CCCOE Craft - Culver City CA, August 2008
Tall Mouse Hand Made Market - Cerritos CA July 2008
Bazaar Bizarre Market - Maker Fair - San Mateo CA, May 2008
The Brewery Art Walk - The Brewery Studios, Los Angeles CA, April 2008
I Made It Market - Los Angeles CA, January 2008
2007
Hand Made for the Holidays - Los Angeles CA, November 2007
The Brewery Art Walk - The Brewery Studios, Los Angeles CA, October 2007
Felt Club XL Summer 2007 - Ukrainian Cultural Center, Los Angeles CA, July 2007
The Brewery Art Walk - The Brewery Studios, Los Angeles CA April 2007
2006
The Brewery Art Walk - The Brewery Studios, Los Angeles CA, October 2006
2005
"The Hunter and the Prey" Selected Drawings - Dutch Boy Open Studio, Oakland CA, May 2005
"Shadow Box" seeing art in its own light - Lobot Gallery, Oakland CA, March 2005
2004
”Landscape Memories and Traveling Companions” - 21 Grand, Oakland CA, November 2004
”Temporary Space”, Dutch Boy Studios Winter Exhibition - Oakland CA, November 2004
”In Defense of Liberty” Pro-Arts Gallery - Oakland CA, September 2004
”Group Show” Gallery One - Oakland CA, June 2004
”Deluxe” Christensen Heller Gallery - Oakland CA, April-May 2004
”Facets of Feminine” Frank Bette Center for the Arts - Alameda CA, March 2004
2003
”EBOS Show” Pro Arts Gallery - Oakland CA, June 2003
Open Studio at Dutch Boy Studios - Oakland CA, June 2003
”Marilyn and Betty” Emmy’s Spaghetti Shack - San Francisco CA, February 2003
”Works on Paper” 560 Main - Pleasanton CA, 2003-2004
2002
”EBOS Show” Pro Arts Gallery - Oakland CA, June 2002
Open Studio at Dutch Boy Studios - Oakland CA, June 2002
2001
”Ten New Artists” Conner Contemporary Art Gallery - Washington D.C., August 2001
”Memory/Vision”, Eyes On Art @ Optical Underground - San Francisco CA, July 2001
”All Senior Show” Corcoran Gallery of Art - Washington D.C., May 2001
”The Persistence of Memory” Corcoran Gallery of Art - Washington D.C., March 2001
2000
”Permanent Record Offenders” Millennium Art Center - Washington D.C., Dec. 2000
”White Walls Senior Show” Corcoran College of Art & Design - Washington D.C., September 2000
