Doris Voss Dasenbrock Bio-Information
Phone: 301-249-6691 Website: madamzucchini.com/dvdartgallery/
I look for designs in nature, textures, light, color, shadows and most of all I like to call attention to scenes that have a message. Rundown buildings, boats, houses and sheds, are of special interest to me. Time is the agent of change; it holds many untold/unfinished stories left within empty decomposing shells. Relics of past events; lives now gone; decaying reminders which form their own beauty as they diminish in time with the wind, rain, snow and sun beating on them. Elements like copper, which over time develop a green patina; wood that reveals core colors under bark patterns partially scraped away; fences that are partially remaining; all these signs of the past are markers like gravestones, to remind us of what was, what might have been and what never will be the same again. Their time has passed.
I am a realist painter; I paint what I see. I like to capture a moment in time of something important to me-whether because of color, form, design, texture, sentiment, challenge, or whatever catches my interest, my inner artistic "eye." I prefer to paint travel venues, landscape scenery, water and boat views, still life arrangements, nature's animals, plants and vegetables, man-made objects all in compositions as I find or make them. I like to "cherry pick" details at times to form a specialized "nuanced realism." I use a variety of media-oils, ink, acrylics, watercolor, pencil, gouache and photography. Most of my work is in watercolor-a difficult medium to work with. It is not easily controlled-there are accidents that totally ruin a week's or a day's work and there are "happy accidents" that add to the character of the painting, often serving very unexpectedly to be inspirational as well.
Record of scholarships, art awards, purchase prizes, and exhibits:
Awards - Purchase Prizes
$200 Wisconsin State Legislative Scholarship-1958 Horicon High School Salutatorian-Class of 1958 $200 Nile Behncke Art Scholarship-1961 Simson Paper Co. Graphic Design Award of Excellence-1980 $100 Merit Prize-Painting, Savannah, GA-1969 $500 Stained Glass Design Award, St. Petersburg, FL-1969 $300 Childe Hassom Purchase Award-1969 $750 Benedictine Art Purchase Award-National Competition Winner-1976 Painting Purchase Award, Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne :
Art Exhibits
Two Person Art Exhibit at Huber Gallery-31st Street, Georgetown; Washington, DC-1978 High Museum, Atlanta, GA Florida State Gallery, Tallahassee, FL American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY 1968, 1969 Gallery of the Sea Art Gallery, Arlington, VA U.S. Government Dept. of Fisheries-Permanent Collection, Washington, DC
