Month: April 2024 – May 2024
Artist: Anne-Marie Delaunay-Danizio
Exhibit: Why So Blue?
Dates:
- Exhibit Opening Reception Date: Saturday, April 20, 2024 2pm to 5pm
- Exhibit Closing Reception Date: Saturday, May 25, 2024 2pm to 5pm
Artist Statement:
The title “Why so Blue” refers to the dominant monochromatic Indigo blue paintings in the exhibition, and to the introverted mood of an older female artist reflecting on her career.
My main media is acrylic paint on canvas, enhanced by acrylic paint markers and silver ink gel paint. One of the artworks, titled “Hidden” was finished with oil sticks over acrylic paint.
Why so Blue?
Because I did not know that growing old would happen so fast- I started painting at age seventeen in 1973, Paris.
Through the filtration of emotions in these times of complexities and ambiguities, volatility and uncertainty, I move through a wide range of expressions, with a strong theme that blurs boundaries between genders, living beings, human and non-human, body and landscape, external appearance and internal organs.
When I started painting, I did not know how to articulate what I was feeling. Yet, my first canvas was an abstract landscape that still strongly connects to the way I am painting now.
The show at the Cutter gallery displays works from exuberant bright colors, to the more recent monochromatic dark blues. – The five 50 x 40 inches paintings of the series “Indigo Wave” occupy a whole wall. The rest of the exhibition shifts into brighter artworks that move from heavy and opaque textures to liquid, translucent layers.
I still define the fluid and ambiguous process of creating as a dance of trauma and celebration. Yet, it is where my home, anchor and deepest sense of self from seventeen to now, are.
Artist Bio:
As a self-taught artist, Anne-Marie Delaunay-Danizio enrolled in a MFA program at NHIA, now The Institute of Art and Design at NEC, in January of 2018 and graduated in Visual Art in January 2020.
Her process during the two-year program led her to return to her initial love of painting, which started at age 17 in the 70s Paris.
In her 2020 MFA thesis, she identifies as an abstract expressionist painter who challenges the dominant concept of artistic drive as exclusively male. Such a concept had a paralyzing impact during her coming of age as a young female artist.
Delaunay-Danizio lives in Salem NH with the other parent of her two young adult children. Her artworks have been displayed in Arlington, Cambridge, Boston and Lowell, MA, Manchester and Hooksett, NH, New York City, NY, and Luxembourg. Her artist practice is located in the large art community of the Western Avenue Studios and Lofts in Lowell, MA.
Her studio (#345) is open to the public during the Western Avenue Studios and Lofts Open studios, on the first Saturday of each month.
Website: anne-mariedelaunay-danizio.com
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