Daniel Maidman

Pink Portrait of Syrie
Oil on canvas
24 x 24

Daniel Maidman American (born 1975) is one of the foremost masters of figure drawing in America. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Maidman has spent several decades grappling with the challenges and opportunities of life drawing. The resulting body of work – deft, ripe depictions of the human body in all its shapes and actions – has developed an avid following amongst artists and admirers alike.

“Daniel Maidman: Nudes” celebrates Maidman’s provides an in-depth look at his powerful vision of the beauty and pathos of the human condition.

  “For me, there is something close to the meaning of existence itself bound up in the spectacular field of light interacting with flesh. Flesh makes light visible, and light redeems the futility of matter. What is more important than making an image of this?” – Daniel Maidman

 “These are studies in the best sense of the word, offering a keen insight into Maidman’s thought process while clarifying a system of formal articulation that has been at the core of visual thought for centuries. … In their simplicity and economy of means they speak to an audience of young artists unfamiliar with the discourse of form as an analogue of reason. They demonstrate an unflinching belief in the potential for clarity in a world all too familiar with the sloppy threshold upon which it is perched.”

                                                                                              – Vincent Desiderio,

“Daniel Maidman has made some exquisite drawings of the human body, often focusing on particular aspects of it. The drawings are meticulously detailed, ingeniously nuanced, eloquently intense. They are an important contribution to the resurgence of interest in the figure.”

 - Donald Kuspit,

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History and Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook

 “Daniel Maidman’s subject is body: that luminous vessel that contains our loves, hopes, struggles, and individual experiences. Daniel’s nudes are, on various pages, lyrical, sensual, sexual, affectionate, intimate and highly individualistic. He never lets you forget that inside the body, hand, feet, face, is a person-- alive, quirky, full of consciousness—that through his reverent investigation, he is determined to extract and reveal.”     

                                           - Patricia Watwood,Artist and Author, Brooklyn, NY