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Dana Lok is a visual artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. In her paintings and drawings, she aims to capture the magic and unease found in the gap between signs and the things they represent. Her recent work imagines metaphors for how we create knowledge and draw conceptual schemes together. Solo exhibitions include Part and Parse, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2022) One Second Per Second at PAGE, New York (2020); Words Without Skin at Clima, Milan (2019); Mind’s Mouth at Bianca D’Allessandro, Copenhagen (2018); Soft Fact at Clima, Milan (2017); and The Set of All Sets at Chewday’s, London (2016). Group shows include Gravity, a proposal at Sikkema Jenkins &amp; Co. (2022); Regroup Show at Miguel Abreu Gallery (2021); Fifteen Painters at Andrew Kreps Gallery (2021); PAGE (NYC) at Petzel Gallery (2021), all in New York. Dana received her MFA from Columbia University (2015) and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2011), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016). In 2018, she was awarded the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Lok’s work has been covered in Hyperallergic, Cura and Frieze.

Dana Lok is a visual artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. In her paintings and drawings, she aims to capture the magic and unease found in the gap between signs and the things they represent. Her recent work imagines metaphors for how we create knowledge and draw conceptual schemes together. Solo exhibitions include Part and Parse, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2022) One Second Per Second at PAGE, New York (2020); Words Without Skin at Clima, Milan (2019); Mind’s Mouth at Bianca D’Allessandro, Copenhagen (2018); Soft Fact at Clima, Milan (2017); and The Set of All Sets at Chewday’s, London (2016). Group shows include Gravity, a proposal at Sikkema Jenkins &amp; Co. (2022); Regroup Show at Miguel Abreu Gallery (2021); Fifteen Painters at Andrew Kreps Gallery (2021); PAGE (NYC) at Petzel Gallery (2021), all in New York. Dana received her MFA from Columbia University (2015) and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2011), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016). In 2018, she was awarded the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Lok’s work has been covered in Hyperallergic, Cura and Frieze.

Welcome to Voices from Frieze, brought to you by luxury fashion destination MATCHESFASHION. In this series of mini audio guides, experts and insiders bring you the most important news, up-and-coming talent and local insights from the Frieze art fairs. Even if you can’t be there in person, the creatives featured in this series will guide you around all the pulse points of interest and excitement in and around the fair. In this episode, Rebecca Siegel, director of Americas and content for Frieze Los Angeles, speaks to the Brooklyn-based painter Dana Lok. Her work experiments with different viewpoints and examines, among other things, the interplay between space and time. Her work has been shown in a number of exhibitions including the Fisher Landau Center for Art and the Judith Charles Gallery, as well as which she has received a number of awards and scholarships such as the Andrew Fisher Fellowship from Columbia University. Rebecca speaks to Dana about how she is involved with Frieze New York 2021 and how her art responds to the world today.

Voices From Frieze – Dana Lok

Dana Lok (b. Berwyn, PA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include "One Second Per Second" at Page, New York, "Words Without Skin" at Clima, Milan and "Mind's Mouth" at Bianca D'Alessandro, Copenhagen. Lok recently participated in the group exhibitions "Regroup Show" at Miguel Abreu and "15 Painters" at Andrew Kreps, New York, and "The Conspiracy of Art, Part II" at Chateau Shatto, LA. Her work has been covered in the New York Times, Frieze, and Cura Magazine.Lok received her MFA from Columbia University and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2018, she received the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Recently, Lok's work digs into the metaphors we use to understand basic components of human experience, like time and representation.Mentioned in interview was Philosopher Sally Haslanger, her books and articles can be found on her homepage. Also mentioned was Krazy Kat and Emily Dickinson.Weather System, 2021, Oil on canvas, 70 x 78 inCausal Wedge, 2020, Oil on canvas, 56 x 65 in

Dana Lok (b. Berwyn, PA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include "One Second Per Second" at Page, New York, "Words Without Skin" at Clima, Milan and "Mind's Mouth" at Bianca D'Alessandro, Copenhagen. Lok recently participated in the group exhibitions "Regroup Show" at Miguel Abreu and "15 Painters" at Andrew Kreps, New York, and "The Conspiracy of Art, Part II" at Chateau Shatto, LA. Her work has been covered in the New York Times, Frieze, and Cura Magazine. Lok received her MFA from Columbia University and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2018, she received the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Recently, Lok's work digs into the metaphors we use to understand basic components of human experience, like time and representation. Mentioned in interview was Philosopher Sally Haslanger, her books and articles can be found on her homepage. Also mentioned was Krazy Kat and Emily Dickinson. Weather System, 2021, Oil on canvas, 70 x 78 in Causal Wedge, 2020, Oil on canvas, 56 x 65 in