Donna W. Radcliffe

Bio

Donna Radcliffe’s work has been exhibited nationally in New York, Seattle, Houston, Little Rock and Atlanta. She has also exhibited widely in the Chicago area in such places as the 3Arts Club, South Shore Cultural Center, the Museum of Science and Industry, the DuSable Museum, 33 Collective, Gallery Guichard, WomanMade Art Gallery, Tallgrass Art Gallery, Union Street Art Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, the UIC African American Cultural Center, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Chicago Theological Seminary.

Donna works with several venues, using various media to reflect the life and notion at hand. She believes that each subject has a story to tell and is best represented by a particular medium. Like music using certain instruments for effect, her work uses different mediums to represent the various subjects. Layers of color, light and texture, represent the moods and revelations she encounters though the muse’ of nature, culture, history and spirituality. She uses her art to feel the words, tell the story and sometimes to ...just breathe.

Her most noted pieces include collections of stylized landscapes, and representational images using her unique expression of mixed media. Her love of music is felt in many of her compositions by the sense of rhythm and movement. The techniques she exhibits in her paintings have been said to add a certain depth and “other-worldliness” to her work.