From the press release - The vibrant, colorful, mixed media works of artist Dana Simon employ both painting and sculpture. Dana Simon, an artist with both a vision and  hearing  loss breaks the two-dimensional picture plane by incorporating sculptural materials such as wood, plexiglass, rubber and plaster life casts onto the canvases.

After graduating from New York University, Dana Simon studied for several years at the Art Students League. Her work merges the shapes and colors of abstract painting with figuration and her canvases are saturated with vibrant, energetic colors. Dana Simon employs both painting and sculpture in the same works. She breaks the two-dimensional picture plane by incorporating sculptural materials such as wood, plexiglass, rubber, and plaster life-casts onto the canvases. She has discovered that a sculpture can become part of a painting and in her mobiles, the painting can be removed from the canvas to become sculpture.

Since childhood, Ms. Simon has had Usher's Syndrome, a progressive condition that affects both her sight and her hearing, causing her to see the world  differently. As a result of her own physical limitations, Ms. Simon feels compelled to explode pictoral and figurative boundaries in her work. She breaks the figure into fragments, and freely rearranges the fragmented figure into unnatural positions. Each body part shown becomes an object in and of itself; and in some instances are joined to form a whole.