Background
Daniel Maidman was born in Toronto, Canada.
Daniel Maidman was born in Toronto, Canada.
He attended high school as a visual arts major at the Claude Watson School for the s, and completed a Bachelor with honors in radio, television, and motion pictures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His art and writing reflect eclectic tastes, with an emphasis on realism. He pursued extensive mentored independent study in gross anatomy at Santa Monica College, 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.
Maidman"s paintings range from the figure and portraiture, to still lives and landscapes, to investigations of machinery, architecture, and microflora. The images occupy a spectrum from high rendering to almost total abstraction.
His work has been shown in invitational and juried exhibitions in New York, Washington District of Columbia, 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:..we see the subject as a living, breathing human being.
Maidman"s paintings are not just portraits of Leah herself, but portraits of the painting process. While the depictions of Leah are naturalistic, there is an additional sense of slow, careful looking that brings an extra jolt of radiance to her body, reviving the mysteriousness of flesh. He has produced work in collaboration with installation artist Erika Johnson, author Kathleen Rooney, and actor Martin Donovan.
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, in Midland, Michigan, in 2013.
His paintings have repeatedly been finalists in the annual figurative painting competition of The ist’s Magazine. His artwork has been published, among others, by Poets/ists and Manifest.
Maidman’s collectors include Chicago entrepreneur Howard A. Tullman, best-selling novelist China Miéville, and New York Magazine senior critic Jerry Saltz.