Curious about taxidermic animals and the reasons they are displayed as trophies and as natural history specimens. I began using photos of both preserved and living animals combining them with my landscape photographs in a montage process. This creates formal portraits similar to the style of portraiture championed in Renaissance painting.
While weaving a composition together, I spin a story in my head and hope that viewers will create their own stories. As I was once a painter, working in this medium is a natural extension of my artistic expression.
Dale Niles is a Georgia based artist who was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She is known for her diverse photographic interpretations from her black/white and color photographs to her montage storytelling collage photographs. She received her BA in sociology from Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, NC. Upon graduation she interned as a probation officer but realized this was not her calling. While doing several other vocations she continued her personnel interests which included painting, sculpting and photography, realizing that photography was her art of choice
Awards 2021
-Annual Paris Photo Prize Exhibition at the “Espace Beaurepaire”-Paris , France
-LA Photo Curator-'This Land is Your Land' exhibit-honorable mention
2020
-PX3 (Prix De La Photographie Paris)-Gold in fine Art/Collage and second place winner in Fine Art for 'Life Revisited' Series. Also an honorable mention in Fine Art for 'Solidifying Root's' series
-A Smith Gallery-Johnson City, TX-Vista Exhibit-honorable mention
-Griffin Photography Museum-26th annual exhibit-honorable mention-Winchester, Massachusetts
-Shadow & Light Magazine March/April 2020 Color It Red Special edition
-Photo Place Gallery-'Trees'-honorable mention-Middlebury, Vermont
-Chromatic Awards-honorable mention in Fine Art
-2019
-Chromatic Awards-honorable mention in Fine Art
-Selected for exhibit at Mayo Clinic-Jacksonville, Florida
-Slow Exposures-Strickland Building-Concord, GA-1st place
-Solo show-Cochran Gallery, LaGrange, Georgia
-PX3 Prix DeLa Photographie Paris- Honorable mention in Fine Art/Collage for 'Animal in Redux' series
2018
-Top 10 to watch-Atlanta, Georgia
-Critical Mass Top 200-Animals Lives Redux
-Chromatic Awards-2nd place Fish Plates and Bourbon, honorable mention for Family Bibles and Buddy and Blanche
-Virginia Twainam Smith purchase award for "Fish Plates and Bourbon" MOCA GA permanent collection
-The Fence-"Animal Lives Revisited"-exhibiting in 8 cities-Brooklyn, Boston,Atlanta,
Santa Fe, Durham, Denver, Houston, Calgary (Canada), Sarasota
-Solo Show of "Solidifying Roots" series at Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill, NC
-Solo Show at Art Clayton-Jonesborough, Georgia
-L.A Photo Curator-'The Animal Kingdom-honorable mention
