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    • Compositional Collage
    • Women Painted/Drawn
    • Traditions: Landscape/Still Life/Portrait
    • Drown the Dolls Photographs
  • ABOUT
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  • "INDOCTRINATION IN THE DARK" ARTIST VIDEO COMMENTARY

    Film clips and discussion of the eleven films that inspired my "Indoctrination in the Dark" painting series, films that present destructive male-female dynamics, sexual assault and rape as comedy, romance or the path to true happiness.

  • THE REPRESENTATION PROJECT'S #ENDRAPE CAMPAIGN

    Part of the RAPE CULTURE VIRTUAL EXHIBIT, "Indoctrination in the Dark" examines Hollywood movies that present destructive male/female power dynamics, sexual assault, and even rape as either comedy or the path to true love and happiness.
    The Representation Project:
    We are here to change the world.
    No matter who you are or where you live, intersectional gender stereotypes are hurting you and those you love. Through film, education, and activism, The Representation Project awakens consciousness, spotlights the cost of these stereotypes, and invites everyone to build a more equitable future.

  • MEET DAENA TITLE- BOLD JOURNEY MAGAZINE

    MEET DAENA TITLE- BOLD JOURNEY MAGAZINE

    ...overcoming Imposter Syndrome, because we’ve seen how so many people are held back in life because of this and so we’d really appreciate hearing about how you overcame Imposter Syndrome.

    It’s the difference between what is your passion and what is your dream...

  • CANVAS REBEL INTERVIEW - MEET DAENA TITLE

    CANVAS REBEL INTERVIEW - MEET DAENA TITLE

    We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

    ...The Representation Project is working to confront rape myths, support survivors, and challenge rape culture in media. They posted my latest series, “Indoctrination in the Dark” to highlight how pervasive and harmful Rape culture is in our lives. Their web site: therepproject.org/endrape/ My work there: therepproject.org/endrape/rape-culture-…

  • MEET DAENA/ARTIST

    MEET DAENA/ARTIST

    ...We had the good fortune of connecting with Daena Title and we’ve shared our conversation below.... AUGUST 2020

  • "DROWN the DOLLS" ARTIST VIDEO COMMENTARY

    Artist Statement for solo show at Koplin Del Rio January 8, 2011
    Celebrities discuss their relationship to Barbie

  • ART ON THE MOON

    My work is part of the Time Capsule payload of Annex 9 on Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander, scheduled to land on the Moon in late 2021. This is the first commercial launch to the Moon in history, and marks the first US spacecraft to land on the Moon since the Apollo program over 50 years ago.

  • CARTER BURDEN GALLERY

    NYC Representation

  • LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION

    LA, CA Affiliation

  • BROOKLYN MUSEUM ON LINE FEMINIST ART BASE

    Featured Artist

  • ARTSY

  • INSTAGRAM

  • SAATCHI ONLINE

  • DAENA TITLE, AN ARTIST WHOSE ARTWORK FOCUSES ON THE SUBJUGATION OF WOMEN THROUGH FILMS --Peggy Nichols; Studio C Gallery

  • "INDOCTRINATION IN THE DARK" INTERVIEW WITH DEBRA TOROK PH.D.

    Interview re: the inspiration for my "Indoctrination in the Dark" painting series conducted by Activist and Educator Debra Torok, Ph.D., for her Artists and Activists class at Moravian University. Interview focuses on Supreme Court History and the power of narrative.
    "Indoctrination in the Dark" is a series of eleven paintings each based on a beloved film, a film that, on re-examination, normalizes destructive male-female dynamics, sexual assault or rape, presenting them as comedy, romance or the path to true happiness.

  • FACEBOOK Daena Title Artist

  • FACEBOOK: DROWN the DOLLS

  • MEET DAENA TITLE IN HANCOCK PARK - VOYAGE LA INTERVIEW

    April 2018 "Today we’d like to introduce you to Daena Title.
    Thanks for sharing your story with us Daena. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there."

  • THIS FEMINIST ARTIST PAINTS BEAUTY CONTESTANTS by Didi Menendez

    Posted April 2018: "Beauty Pageant contestants are particularly problematic. They’re admirable, but objectified. And why are they all so gosh darn happy?"

  • CAREER ADVICE FOR WELLESLEY COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

    Basic advice for a graduating or beginning artist.

  • PERCEIVE THIS ARTILLERY MAGAZINE by Genie Davis

  • DAENA TITLE, AN ARTIST OBSESSED WITH WHAT IT IS TO BE FEMALE--Peggy Nichols; Studio C Gallery

  • DROWNING BARBIES, BEAUTY QUEENS AND WONDER WOMAN, AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST DAENA TITLE

    Artist Jan Nelson and I talk art. Published April 2017 Jan Anders Nelson, Artist Interrupted, Word Press Blog

  • TITLE'S JUXTAPOSITION BETWEEN JOY AND LUNACY By Lorena Kloosterboer

    PoetsArtists April 2017 #84: "Daena Title’s bright, energetic paintings focus on the strong seductive force of contemporary female icons. Loose, powerful brushstrokes and vivid colors help define Title’s fascination with the ambiguous misrepresentation of beauty, feeling particularly drawn to the way heightened expressions of joy can cross a line into an ostensibly distorted or crazy appearance..."

  • 2020 VISION ARTILLERY MAGAZINE by Genie Davis

  • TULLMAN COLLECTION

    "Point and Share" added to the Tullman Collection Chicago, IL

  • EMULATIONS AT MUZEUMM - REVIEW by Genie Davis

    Posted May 2018: "In the main gallery, Title’s large-scale paintings on canvas are also dazzling...."

  • WTF SPECIAL EXHIBITION AT ART PALM BEACH 2018

    23 October 2017
    The anticipated exhibition WTF at ArtPalmBeach January 17-21, 2018 is curated by PoetsArtists publisher Didi Menendez. WTF is about women. Women who are painting whatever they want.

  • NEITHER DISCO NOR PAINTING IS DEAD, AND HERE'S THE ART SHOW TO PROVE IT by Priscilla Frank

    To the haters out there who say disco is dead, and to the artsy crowd who debates for hours over whether or not painting has suffered a similar fate, stop talking and start ogling the glitter-happy surfaces of "FREAK OUT!" -- a Chicago based exhibition curated by Didi Menendez and Sergio Gomez.

  • HUFFINGTON POST REVIEW 1/11 "DROWN the DOLLS" by Patricia Ciaffa Peyser

    "Barbie's slight but potent form carries five decades of heavy cultural associations on its diminutive shoulders. In her riveting new body of work Drown the Dolls, Daena Title mines that iconic ground for fresh and provocative meaning..."

  • THE NEW FEMINISTS

    PoetsArtists Publication #84: Interview with Elizabeth A. Sackler, art reviews by Lorena Kloosterboer, poetry by Bob Hicok, Denise Duhamel and others. This is a special edition of PoetsArtists featuring Feminist artists. May 2017

  • BUZZ FEED LIST 50 WOMEN PAINTERS

    50 Women Painting WTF They Want
    There are several shows happening right now and yes, let's call it a movement of Women Painting Women. I thought I would show you works by women who go past the male gaze. Women who paint without any constraints. Women who paint whatever they want and in this case, they chose to paint women. Posted September 30,2017 by Didi Menendez

  • THE NEW NUDE

    PoetsArtists Publication #86 curated by Walt Morton June 2017

  • ART AND CAKE on POP SURREAL PLAYHOUSE by Betty Ann Brown

    Daena Title paints Barbie dolls drowning in pool water, an apt metaphor for the domestication and domination of women.

  • INTERVIEW FOR FREAK OUT! CHICAGO SHOW

    Interview by Didi Menendez, April 2016. Freak Out! show at Zhou B Center in Chicago curated by Didi Menendez and Sergio Gomez, 2016

  • MY FOX PARENTS LOS ANGELES: "Twenty-Somethings & Tiaras: The Art of the Beauty Queen" by Lenore Kletter

    "Who will be crowned Miss America tonight? LA artist Daena Title will have to watch along with the rest of the world to find out. But one thing she knows for sure. Whoever she is, her mouth will be open. Wide."

  • iARTistas Issue #11 THE NUDE SUMMER ISSUE 2014

    Available for download at link above. Edited by Dulce Menendez.
    Features the art of the NUDE including paintings, drawings and photography. Also included are interviews and a review on Stephen Wright's paintings.

  • iARTisas #20

    Oct 1, 2015: Interviews with artists and poets. Available for download.

  • ONE ON ONE INTERVIEW WITH POETSARTIST MAGAZINE WITH MICHELLE BUCHANAN

    Take that Georg Baselitz!

  • BUST MAGAZINE Interview by Grace Duggan

    "Barbie has inspired art from the likes of Andy Warhol and Karl Lagerfeld, both of whom are lauded for their doll-themed works on the Barbie website. Painter Daena Title probably won’t be added to that list anytime soon. In her latest series, “Drown the Dolls,” Barbie is murdered at the hands of anonymous prepubescent girls…"

  • PA73: POETSARTISTS (Volume 73) 2016

    This is PoetsArtists issue #73 which features the works in FREAK OUT! (Disco is not Dead) at the Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, April 15th, 2016. Catalogue by Didi Menendez. Show curated by Didi Menendez and Sergio Gomez.

  • ARTIST'S REMARKS OPENING NIGHT "DROWN the DOLLS"

  • MiPOesias Fall 2015

    Cover and interior art. Guest edited by Grace Cavalieri and includes poems by 75 poets.

  • CURATED POETS ARTISTS ISSUE #66 - DESTROYING THE FIGURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

    When Representation and Abstraction Merge

    At what point does the figure in a figure painting lose its formal or narrative dominance? Please submit work that walks this line or crosses over it.

    Other decades’ responses, Cubism, Expressionism, Fill-in-the-blank-ism, reflected their time and place. But how are you responding to the individual in our decade? If we are constantly bombarded, have no true privacy or quiet space, are inextricable from our social network and indistinguishable from our own branding and social media connections, how does that inform your figurative work? How does the way your figures inhabit, share, exist or dissolve into their space mirror our place in society today?

  • MS. MAGAZINE Blog

    Follow the discussion at Ms. Magazine.
    "To celebrate the opening of the show, and to start a dialogue on the impact of Barbie on real women’s lives, Title and Ms. are asking people everywhere to share their Barbie stories on video. We want to hear from you! Record a short video of your Barbie story–did you have Barbies when you were a kid? Did you want them if you didn’t have them? How did you feel about them then, how do you feel about them now?..."

  • BARBIE IS OFFICIALLY UNDER WATER

    MS. MAGAZINE BLOG Review
    Stephanie Hallett -- Posted January 2011

  • SHOULD BARBIE SINK OR SWIM?" (Thoughts on the “Drown the Dolls” Project)

    POP GOES FEMINISM: GIRL WITH PEN
    Natalie Wilson -- Posted Jan 7th, 2011

  • PANEL DISCUSSION: Should Barbie Sink or Swim? (Excerpts)

    Daena Title, Beth Grant, Natalie Wilson, Marabina Jaimes, Elline Lipkin and Moderators Stephanie Hallett and Colette Brooks discuss "DROWN the DOLLS", Barbie, and Women's issues at Koplin Del RIo January 29, 2011 For full length version: vimeo.com/19708192

  • PA41: POETSARTISTS (Volume 41) 2012

  • HAIKU REVIEWS: LOVE, DOLLS, AND RHINOS: #10

    HUFFINGTON POST Click on #10
    Peter Frank -- Posted February 17, 2011

  • DIDI MENENDEZ ON PATREON

    From the Publisher of PoetsArtists

  • ELLO

  • ARTNET

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