Dayana Santos De Castro
Telephone
631 968 8111
Post Office Box Five
Brightwaters, NY, 11718
Born 1965; Nova Iguaηu,
Rio De Janeiro, BRASIL
Education
ACADEMIA DOS LETRAS (University) Brazil; Professor Afranio Coutinho, Ph.D
(UCLA); acclaimed scholar worldwide (private advisor to many foreign
governments).
Public Speaking / Media
SONY MUSIC BRASIL: solo music CD; Live
Broadcast Radio Show Host throughout Brazil; volunteer and
fundraiser for Inca Cancer Research Hospital, Rio De
Janeiro.
Commissions
Jeffrey Ackerman (
senior finance director,
Swiss based multinational corporation)
Virginia Evans ( Long Island
Association
executive for Newsday; Chicago Tribune)
Public Collections
Phuntsok Choephel Ling Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism c/o
Sapan Rinpoche Lama Kunga Gyaltsen; Nederland, (Boulder), Colorado -
(prints)
Corporate Collections
IBMS International Bellevue, WA; TecBank Corp. Seattle, WA;
- (prints)
German Consulate for the State of Washington Bellevue, WA - (prints)
Private Collections
Mr.
& Mrs. Linda Nordstrom - (Nordstrom Department Stores family). -
(prints)
Mr. Christian Seifert - (Honorary German Consul, Washington State).
- (prints)
Mr. Neil Evans - (Microsoft
Chief Technology Officer,
1983 - 1994). - (prints)
Mr. Barrett Williams - (colleague, Nobel
Laureate, S. Chandrashekar). - (prints)
Dr. Percival Lima - (retired Colonel, Brazilian military officer, MD).
- (prints)
Dr. Carl Pillitterri - (private practice, MD, Long Island, New York).
- (prints)
Exhibitions
1998 - Studio Adriana; (Phoenix) Mesa,
Arizona solo 25 paintings
1999 - Latin Artz;
(Phoenix) Mesa, Arizona solo
exhibit 50 paintings
2000 - Studio De Castro; Sherman Oaks, California solo
75 paintings
2001 - Dayana; Sherman Oaks,
California solo exhibit 100 paintings
2002 - Charles Martinez
Studio; Crestline, California solo
125 paintings
2003 - Silicon Rainforest;
Seattle, Washington solo exhibit: 150 paintings
2004 - Second Ave. Artists Community; Bay
Shore, NY solo - 200 paintings
Reviews
"Dayana ... stunning for what
I saw, especially on the website series 7 and The Cross; the influence
in your art is not only from Pablo (Picasso) or Salvador (Dali), it is
the cubism in general that acquires the top of the depuration; Joan
Miro would be so proud of that perfection."
--- Dr. Virgilio
Vinas (his grandfather was the career art dealer for Salvador Dali):
"compared to me, De
Castro has a 10x better chance of making it as a big time New
York artist" - "Dayanas work is really excellent. The figures
and faces remind me of many great artists like Chagall, Picasso,
Klee ... she is really gifted and visionary."
[anon. Ph.D, MFA - Emmy
winner (Steven Spielberg), Oscar nominee (George Lucas);
artistic advisor to Martin Scorcese ... veteran fine
artist exhibited at two major NYC art galleries; heavily
publicized in Wall Street Journal and worldwide press. ]
"Dayana De Castro communicates to the abstract inner language of human
conscious awareness in its connection to the divine - the cosmic
complexity of life: spirit-form representations at the level of
metaphysical extrapolation - a suffering mankind kissing the face of
the vast, invisible yet innately good universe ... powerful and
variegated expressions of our mortal condition - life, love, fear,
destruction, creation, celebration and mystery; a wide field of
psycho-physical contemplations, in a profound dance of physical
humanity reaching to its heart reaching to its divinity; the human
condition in its phantasmagorical sense - from the postulated extremes
of pain and suffering to the sacred feast of love, hope and dreams -
transfigured by an ordinary yet supramundane consideration of the life
drama and enigmatic journey to the divine; art that is esoteric yet
accessible; sacredly inward yet openly convex; mystically vibrant yet
real."
--- collector, Roosevelt (Montagne) family.
