Daphne Minkoff was born in Baton Rouge, LA . She received her BFA from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, with honors in painting. She currently teaches painting and drawing at North Seattle College and shows her work at the Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle, WA. Daphne combines painting with imagery photographed during her travels and everyday life in Seattle. The images represent small “excerpts of life, a passing glance or momentary recollection of a place,” and the pairings are focused on how those things intersect. She finds unconventional beauty through disparate elements. Her work is a unique balance of the mundane and poetic, abstract and realistic, bucolic and gritty. Daphne’s paintings are a search for stability, structure or a modest moment of beauty in our crazed, unhinged world – revealing a quiet, humble truth that speaks to her.