Daniel Maidman (born 1975) is a painter and art writer who lives in

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, New York. His art and writing reflect eclectic tastes, with an emphasis on

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Early life and education

Daniel Maidman was born in

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, Canada. He attended high school as a visual arts major at the

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, and completed a BA with honors in radio, television, and motion pictures at the

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. He pursued extensive mentored independent study in

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, completing an anatomical atlas in 2003. Illustrations from this atlas were used in the United States Army's forensic field guide, ''Identification of Deceased Personnel.'' Maidman moved to Brooklyn in 2006, and continues to live and work there.

Art

Maidman's paintings range from the

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and

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ure, to still lives and

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, to investigations of machinery, architecture, and microflora. The images occupy a spectrum from high rendering to almost total

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. His work has been shown in invitational and juried exhibitions in New York, Washington DC, California, Ohio, Missouri, and Oregon. His painting Hands #1 was selected by the Saatchi Gallery to be displayed at Gallery Mess in London. The work in his 2012 Manhattan solo show ''Blue Leah'', at Dacia Gallery was reviewed as follows by The Huffington Post: He has produced work in collaboration with installation artist Erika Johnson, author

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, and actor

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. Several of Maidman’s life drawings, anatomical drawings, and Blue Leah paintings were shown at an invitational group show, ''The Anatomy of an Idea'', at the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, in Midland, MI, in 2013. His paintings have repeatedly been finalists in the annual figurative painting competition of ''The Artist’s Magazine''. His artwork has been published, among others, by Poets/Artists and Manifest. Maidman’s collectors include Chicago entrepreneur Howard A. Tullman, best-selling novelist

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, and New York Magazine senior critic

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Writing

Maidman has developed a large body of writing on art, ranging from technique and criticism to philosophy and aesthetics. He takes a broad approach to art styles and movements. While his focus is figurative painting, he seeks ways to read the work he encounters regardless of idiom. This latitudinarian attitude has earned his writing followings among both the academic and contemporary arts communities. Maidman's writing on technique has appeared at Artist Daily and been extensively published in International Artist. His criticism and general art writing appears regularly at The Huffington Post. His writing and thoughts on art have also appeared in ARTnews, Whitehot Magazine, and MAKE Literary Magazine. His writing on Da Vinci was taught at DePaul University and Roosevelt University in 2012. In 2013, he was invited to moderate the graduating fellows panel at the New York Academy of Art.Fellows Press Release.pdf
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References

External links

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Daniel Maidman Huffington Post archive

Daniel Maidman Amazon author page
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