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Email PageThe Nature of Matter
April 26, 2007- May 26, 2007
Reception: April 26, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Reed Danziger
McKenzie Fine Art
511 W 25th St Reed Danziger Untitled 802 (2007) |  Reed Danziger Untitled 1001 (2007) |
Danziger is interested in the vast excess of information generated throughout history and the processes by which it is restructured via individual and cultural memory and random events. Her densely patterned, distinctly hued paintings reflect her simultaneous attraction to and skepticism toward this overload of knowledge. Though her work is packed with visual information, her individual references remain oblique and subordinate to an overall rhythm and sense of continual reinvention.
Danziger builds up her elaborate webs of visual motifs by overlaying ornamental designs such as tendrils and lace-like floral patterns derived from nature. There are also more abstracted forms - dots, drips, ribbon-like swags and swirls of color – which occur throughout. Also integrated into her compositions are schema that reference the world of science: kaleidoscopic structures, geodesic shapes, DNA-like strands and molecular diagrams. Though at times these varied elements threaten to overwhelm the paintings, Danziger skillfully strikes a balance between the ordered information of humankind and the potential chaos of the natural world.
In Danziger’s newest paintings, the elements and patterns are more clustered than in the past. This compositional strategy preserves the layered visual complexity, “idealized organic forms run amok,” as she refers to it, but also suggests organized growth and movement in and through a more open space. Danziger writes of this development:
“The new work is a shift to an organic development of pattern and repetition. I concentrated on allowing forms and complex systems to grow and evolve and be in constant motion. Elements spontaneously merge and interact, shifting and evolving into one other. Organic forms become reduced into silhouettes, elements collect and merge, gravity pulls, and each painting becomes its own complex system that references the organic forms but is ultimately indefinable.”
Danziger's work is currently on view in the exhibition Laced with History at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan WI, and was recently seen in More is More - Maximalist Tendencies in Recent American Painting at the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts in Tallahassee.
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