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Artist Statement:
THE MONOTYPES:
Despite my obsession with
drawing, I remain at heart a
colorist, and my monotypes
represent the most spontaneous
welling up of color in all of
my art. I use brayers and my
hands, rather than a press, to
transfer ink from the plate to
the paper, and I ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
2009 - Salon Mar Graff,
Tesuque, New Mexico,
"Terra-Hedron"
2009 - Santa Fe Community
Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
"What seeds have borne"
2008 Center for Contemporary
Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
"Collect: Inside 8"
2007 - Coleman Gallery
Contemporary Art, Albuquerque,
New Mexico, "Accelerate"
[three-person show]
2007 - Underground Gallery,
Santa ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
Public collections -
University of Texas at Tyler,
Art Program Permanent
Collection
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Commissions:
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Danielle Shelley Biography:
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Modernism - (1890 - 1940)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Henri Matisse
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Richard Diebenkorn, "The seawall"
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Some of my obsessions as an artist:
-stillness and empty space
-the power of color
-the polyrhythms of African music
-notan (the Japanese word for the distribution of dark and light)
-the gooiness of oil paint
-line as an expression of mind, body, emotion
-the flatness of the picture plane
-the way artists of every place and time transmute sensory life into art.
Strongest influences on my work:
-non-Western art, from African textiles to Mimbres pottery to Arabic script
-favorite artists—Henri Matisse, Richard Diebenkorn, Arthur Dove, Robert Motherwell, Donald Judd
-Chinese and Japanese calligraphy
rocks
-the meditative rhythms of Tai Chi
-the ideas of the Bauhaus
-Japanese design
-the landscape of Texas, where I grew up, and New Mexico, where I now live and work.
What’s most important to me as an artist is that my work create a lived experience for those who see it. This felt experience creates the connection between artist and viewer that I value so much.
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
I bring an extremely varied background to my practice of art. Although I was always “making things” as a child, I left art as a teenager and went on to get a B.A. in economics and an M.A. in African Studies. I taught math and French in West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer; studied Middle Eastern history and Arabic at the University of London; and traveled widely in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Everywhere I went, I absorbed art, whether in an African weaver’s hut or in the great museums of Europe. After working as a freelance travel writer, business librarian, and editor (among other things), I returned to art full-time in 1993.
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