Dale Najarian

Amsterdam, Cityscape, Figures, Shadows, bikes, oil, painting, Buildings

2023

Dale Najarian received her BFA from Moore College of Art Design in Philadelphia. She began painting in 1998. In 2005, she relocated with her family to Singapore for several years and traveled throughout South East Asia, New Zealand, Australia and China. Dale's photographs taken during this time are a source of inspiration for many of her landscape paintings. Her latest Shadow Series merges the realistic quality of a photograph with the abstract translation of a landscape to depict a dreamlike painting that draws you in. Dale is fascinated by the perspective that shadows create in our daily lives, and uses people’s movements to capture the ever-changing relationship between dark and light. She is also proud of the recent work she created for unloadusa.org, a nonprofit which uses the arts to drive engagement and broaden the coalition of people fighting to end gun violence. Her work has been shown and collected throughout the US and the UK.