Danika is an award winning oil painter based in Seattle Washington. Her work has been featured in galleries, museums and fine art publications.
Exhibition History:
2024 Current Gallery, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2023 Current Gallery, Domicile Design, Seattle, WA. 2022 The Power of Realism, Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA
2022 Unmasked, Figure Ground Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022 Gage Atelier Alumni Exhibition, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2022 Home Grown, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA.
2021 The Nude, Figure Ground Art Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2020 Searching for Beauty, Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA.
2019 Best of Gage, Academy of Art, Seattle, WA.
2018 Atelier Process and Painting, Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA.
2018 Best of Gage, Academy of Art, Seattle, WA.
Awards and Publications:
2023 16th International ARC Salon Competition - Semi Finalist
2022 Featured in Madison Park Times – “A Different Kind of Artwork” 2022 Featured in QueenAnne & Magnolia News– “A Different Kind of Artwork” 2019 Featured in Murze Art Magazine – Portraiture, Reality and Change 2019 Featured in Beginning Drawing Atelier Book – By Juliette Aristides 2019 Best of Gage – Narrative Category
2018 Best of Gage – Still life Category
2014 Featured in Art Journey, Portraits and Figures – North Light Books
Employment History:
2012 - Present, Self employed Fine Artist
2003 - 2012 Valve Software: Senior Hard Surface 3D Artist 2001 - 2003 Lidar Services, Senior Hard Surface 3D Artist
Danika’s artwork can be seen in the following video games:
Half Life 2, Half Life 2 Lost Coast, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2 Episode 1 and Half Life 2 Episode 2, Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, CounterStrike:GO, Internal design, rendering and engine development projects.
And the following feature films and film documentaries:
Master and Commander, Daredevil, X-men 2, Ghost of the Abyss, Day After Tomorrow
Education:
2016 – 2018 Aristides Atelier, Gage Academy
2012 – 2016 Teneya Sims, Georgetown Atelier
2014 Anatomy workshop, Michael Grimaldi
2012 Anatomy workshop, Scott Eaton
2008 Painting & Drawing workshops, Robert Liberace
1999 Figure Drawing workshops, Glen Vilppu
1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, California State Fullerton University