Recent artwork by Dana Jeri Maier.

1. Dana Jeri Maier
Recent-ish work

2. Small Drawings

15. Museum Guide

16. A sketch based on a
visit to the Corcoran
Gallery of Art that
led to more
museum drawings...

17. Lots of museum
drawings.

20. You Can’t Put Art on a Pedestal

31. Street Art

32. The original
Holstee
Manifesto.

33. My parody of the
Holstee Manifesto.

35. This
person
may look
familiar.

37. Original sketch. Pasted image.

39. On Georgia Avenue, for the Georgia
Avenue Window Walk.

40. “Execute dumb ideas
beautifully.”
Lisa Hanawalt

41. Original idea for this came from
“You Can’t Put Art on a Pedestal.”

45. Rules* for making art
*Not a perscription. Just what works for me.

46. Get out of your studio as
needed (the world is
usually much more
interesting).

47. Listen to good
books while you
work.

48. Unlike most of life, when it comes to art-making it’s
perfectly ok to not know what you’re doing...

49. That is, when I’m stuck or bored, I will often
just try to skip back to the fun part.

50. Instead, I developed a fourth-floor curriculum that presents
identifiable themes, generalities even, that are currently
established in the textures of contemporary aesthetic, political, and
economic realities. Within this curriculum, contours can be drawn
around three overlapping priorities: contemporary abstract
painting by women; materiality and affect theory; and art as
strategy—in other words, conceptual practices oriented toward
criticality.
Just don’t lie about your motivations. Or else you
are stuck with sentences like this.