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Artist Statement for Shanna Dantonio
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The initial idea for these paintings began with an interest in human anatomy.
I pulled graphs and structures straight from textbooks and painted them.
For this series, I felt ready to bring it one step further by integrating an
academic concept with the visual anatomy. The idea was to show the
miracle/monster dichotomy of medicine by connecting the anatomy with collaged pictures of
gears, engines, pistons, and other assembly line machinery and textual
references to cloning, in vitro fertilization, etc. This line of thinking was
influenced directly by a contemporary musical piece entitled "Future Breed Machine",
whose title and words I find very provocative (Mesuggah, 2002).
The hot tones of my first attempts will likely be carried on into future
endeavors of the same kind because of the affinity I feel towards reds and
oranges when dealing with the realm of the body. My warm tones help impart life
to skeletal structures, which stand in for actual figures, and cause a feeling
of rawness in the figures which I feel alludes to the underlying structures.
I prefer a dark, murky background and sometimes struggle with a heavy
handedness in this area. I believe I am historically influenced in this regard by
masters such as Rembrandt and Cotan, whose figures emerge from the blackness as
a solid formation of the surrounding atmosphere. I would like to bring this
painterly technique forward into future paintings as an allusion to the
primordial seas of evolution, and eventually begin to deconstruct my images into the
abyss from which they theoretically (and literally, as paint) came.
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