Profoundly Playful is a beautiful full color 102 pg. hardcover fine art coffee table book (10.5” x 12”)
Includes: artist dedication, essays by Bruce Helander and Frank Hyder, forty selected paintings, five sculptures, three installations, twelve candid artist studio images, artist statement and biography and annotated image list.

“Donaty’s new series effortlessly connects with her past work by retaining the delightful common denominator of slapstick humor in unlikely possibilities, including a never-ending barrage of characters born of impossible imagination and circumstances. It doesn’t hurt that this gifted artist has a special knack for inventing oddball scenarios that are heightened by superior picture-making.
In all of Donaty’s carefully articulated works, her audience can sense a true love of articulating paint medium combined with a love and fascination for creating abstracted characters that are unique and certainly memorable. These works suggest a rare talent and an artist who truly is having a wonderful time that ends each day, no doubt, with an engaging smile of satisfaction and accomplishment.”

Bruce Helander
Bruce Helander is an art critic, arts writer, curator and artist. He is the Former Editor-in-Chief of ‘The Art Economist’ magazine, White House Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, former Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs of the RISD and regular contributor to The New Yorker and The Huffington Post.