The colorful art of Mila Moldenhawer AKA Dadadoodles
Quick Introduction
I’m an artist born and based in Berkeley, CA. He currently attends The University of California Berkeley and creates paintings, murals, wood sculptures, and even tattoos. My practice is unified by graphic, abstract, and illustrative qualities.
What does painting mean to you?
I paint, illustrate, make murals, stickers, and even shirts. I make something for everyone and I enjoy adding a sense of meaning and light to people’s everyday experiences. I create every day to explore the boundaries of my own creative capacity and understand how my mental state shifts the flow of the forms I create and the characters that come to define my experiences and aesthetic values in art.
Let’s talk about your style
I often use abstract color blocking of organic and geometric forms together and i often depict portraits with cubist motifs and fractured compositions with different textures and colors that form a type of landscape. Another thing i like to do is using very saturated and usually highly tinted pigments, weaving them together with black surfaces or darker backgrounds and spaces.
Your goals?
My goal is to add interesting things to our surroundings and play with light, color and, shape to provide people with an interesting visual experience. I am interested in my paintings functioning in domestic spaces alongside people’s everyday activities as well as within non-normative contexts. I hope to make more art that is an experience for people walking, sitting, or simply seeking something novel.
Mila’s philosophy
My philosophy is to grow and sustain a practice that allows me to fulfill all my myriad of desires to explore various mediums and how they can function in relation to me and thereafter others.
Mila Moldenhawer ★ Artist resume
EDUCATION
2021 | B.A. in Art practice and Sociology from University of California
Berkeley
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 | MUSA – Magnolia Brewing, San Francisco CA
2019 | Smart Bomb- The Legionnaire Saloon, Oakland CA
2019 | Small talk Studio – Classic Cars West, Oakland CA
2019 | Superb – The UC Theatre, Berkeley CA
2019 | Resensitizing – University of Berkeley, CA
2019 | Pop-up show – Oaklands First Friday, Oakland CA
2019 | The___Life of a ___ Space, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley CA
2019 | Night of Cultural Resistance- Multi-Cultural Center, Berkeley CA
MURALS
2021 | The Rare Barrel Brewery, Berkeley, CA.
2020 | Youth Spirit Artwork, Tiny Home project Oakland, CA.
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS
2020 | Creative Practice Studio Fellowship
2020 | Honors Art Program and Studio, University of California B
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2019 | (Text)ture- Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley CA
AFFILIATIONS/ EMPLOYMENT
2019 | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive- Chair of Marketing
on Student Committee
2019 | Art Library Internship- Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2018 | Ceramics Teacher- Kids’ N Clay, Berkeley, CA
Thank you, Mila.
Instagram: @dadadoodles
Web: milamoldenhawer.com
