McKenzie Fine Art: Reed Danziger Exhibition 2024

55 Orchard Street, New York, New York 10002 212 989 5467


	Reed Danziger June 5 - July 13, 2024
	Reed Danziger starts her paintings by applying watercolor grounds and graphite to paper mounted on wood panels. These grounds are sealed and then layered with a distinctive abstract vocabulary of forms in oil, using a combination of techniques including screening and freehand painting. Created slowly and intuitively, the paintings continue Danziger‘s exploration and development of a complex visual language that capture states of transition, flux, and change. In a shift from earlier works, however, dynamic and explosive moments of energy and directional movement are now more subtle and measured, while the paintings retain the complexity and precise detail that is a hallmark of all of her work. These new paintings are now quieter and more contemplative, and reflect an intimate connection to emotional states and the passage of time. Intentional but subtle divides in each painting demarcate varying transitional episodes. Danziger notes that, “there are moments of entanglement and attempts at containing energy, while at the same time there is a scattering and release of marks and gestures. Particles or energies float into the unknown, while others settle and begin a new pattern or movement. I wanted to reflect my own jumbled sense of time, with areas in the paintings showing an intensity through concentrated marks and layers, in direct contrast to areas that lose focus and fade away.” The new paintings also reflect a greater integration of techniques derived from her works on paper. Danziger allowed for the underpainting of each piece to remain as open and loose as in her drawings, setting the direction of the subsequent accumulation of painted marks. Danziger has been exhibiting her work nationally and internationally for nearly thirty years, including solo and group exhibitions at Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco, Robischon Gallery in Denver, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, and the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, among others. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in Los Angeles, the Achenbach Foundation in San Francisco, Wichita’s Ulrich Museum, and the U.S. Department of State’s Art in Embassies Program.