Statement
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When I try to explain how I see the world, my thoughts split into two layers. One is my present reality, where my family’s history and my personal experiences intertwine and shape my consciousness. The other layer is an alternate realm that carries my dreams and imagination, a space where entities and environments merge into a thought. When I look at these two layers, a major difference appears: the first one is solid and clear, and the other flows like a liquid, which changes frequently.
These two layers meet in the studio. They blend, blur, and give rise to the images I create. From an overview of the studio, one can see figures inhabiting natural landscapes that feel both tangible and imagined. The environment is surreal yet familiar, a meeting point between memory and imagination.
The bodies are naked, free from signs that would anchor them to a specific time or place. They exist through gestures, through quiet tension, through moments that echo my sensations and inner emotional states. Each figure is engaged in an interaction, either with the environment or with the presence of another entity. These encounters are intimate, uncertain, and charged.
In earlier works, the figures interacted with abstract entities that merged into natural forms. Over time, these presences have become human. I cannot always tell whether their shapes come directly from a dream or from my need to understand them more clearly. There are moments when the boundary dissolves, and I am unsure of my position, whether I am observing the scene or one of the participants.
Biography
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Oded Daniely is an Israeli-Jewish artist and educator working primarily in printmaking and papermaking. He received his MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2025 and his BFA in Multidisciplinary Art from Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art in 2021.
Daniely currently serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Printmaking and Continuing Education departments at RISD, where he teaches courses in Paper Making and Print Making. His teaching experience spans intaglio, relief, screen printing, collagraph, and monotype, reflecting a deep engagement with both traditional and experimental processes.
He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in the United States and Israel, including solo show at The Glenn and Darcy Weiner Center in Providence in 2025, Sol Koffler Gallery, and group shows in Woods Gerry Gallery, and East Manning Projects. His work is included in the collection of the RISD Museum. In 2025, he received the West Bay View Foundation Materials Award.
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