Dena Sturm

EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists

Dena Sturm

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The beauty in my work is a wish addressing the world I longed to live in and the reality of the world I did. I use oil paint to create transparent layers — fusing the past with the present — each layer and mark integral to the whole.

Longing to connect, I paint places and portraits hoping to gain a greater understanding of myself by uncovering aspects of someone else — even if imagined.

Light and color are my tools for creating space and transforming objects into a subject –– allowing us to travel back and forth, hopefully arriving somewhere both familiar and new.

EFA Studio Program

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program

The EFA Studio Program is housed in eight floors of the EFA building located in Midtown Manhattan’s Fashion District. The Studio Program maintains artists studios of various size and shape for up to 80 member-artists. One of three programs at EFA, the members of the EFA Studios program are part of a community that includes The Project Space and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. The Studio Program provides artists the rare opportunity to work in a professional arts community inside Manhattan and in close proximity to the city’s primary gallery districts. EFA facilitates interaction with dealers, curators and critics to provide continued development for member-artists. Unique among studio programs in New York City, EFA is one of the few remaining arts organizations still providing long-term workspace in Manhattan.

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