Dana Bulger (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, primarily working with printmaking, artist books, and time-based media. Bulger was diagnosed with diaphyseal aclasis as a child, a disease that affects bone growth and development, causing bony growths known as exostoses. Bulger’s work focuses on personhood, growth, and identity, drawing from her own life experiences—bones, plants, and decay motifs portray both growth and stagnation. Bulger utilizes mylar to create artwork where layers can be added on or peeled away to the viewers content. Transparency and layers are used in tandem to create composite images in her work, exposing the aspect of layering in printmaking often unseen in the finished product. As long as a person continues to live, terrible things will happen whether it is fair or not. Bulger chooses not to focus on why these tragedies occur, but instead explores how we continue to live despite them. Bulger also explores the balance between perfection and imperfection inherent in printmaking itself, especially in multi-layer registration or in imperfections that result from art being created by a human hand. Nothing created is ever truly pure and unflawed, the question is how to live with and accept the flaws that spring up along the way.
Bulger will be completing her bachelors in Studio Arts at the University of Rochester this upcoming spring and will be attending Nazareth College for a Masters of Science in Art Education in Fall 2022.
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