Jasmina Danowski ~ Surf On By ~ at Spanierman Modern

Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:06

NEW YORK CITY - Spanierman Modern is pleased to announce the opening on March 29, 2007 of Jasmina Danowski: Surf On By, an exhibition of oils and works on paper in which color and mark form a field of connections and interactions, spontaneous rhythms, and luminous emanations. On exhibit through 28 April, 2007.

As in the art of Joan Mitchell, Danowksi’s works carry reminiscences of nature or still life, but their power is associative rather than literal, evoking sensations of being in, aroused by, or moving through flowers or landscapes.  The airiness and liquidity of the forms imply a feeling of buoyant passage through time and space. Danowski’s art is also about longing to see color, as she uses process in the expression of her search for color in her surroundings, resulting in “occasional bends” in her perception “between everyday objects and paintings, with one melding into the other in fleeting thoughts. ”

 In many of Danowski’s recent works, floral motifs are the protagonists and main carriers of color, the visual language positioning them between recognizability and free-form shapes, yet their themes are broader, addressing eroticism, mortality, the grotesque, transformations, devotion, and desire.  Their surfaces brimming, but contained, receptive yet self-possessed, the works in this exhibition create places to be in rather than stand passively aside.

The artist was born in Stuttgart, Germany and received her B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute (1990), and her M.F.A. from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (1997).  She received two Pollock-Krasner awards (2001 and 2005), and has shown her work at Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts (solo exhibition, 1997), and at Boston Center for the Arts (2000), Massachusetts College of Art, Boston (2002), Dumbo Arts Center Festival, Brooklyn (2003), and Paradigm Art, Inc., New York, and Weatherspoon Art Museum Biennial Exhibition, Greensboro, North Carolina, Art on Paper (2006).

For more than half a century Spanierman Gallery, LLC has been dedicated to dealing in the finest nineteenth and twentieth-century American painting and sculpture.  In September of 1994, the gallery moved from 50 East 78th Street (its location for almost thirty years), to a luxurious space at 45 East 58th Street directly across the street from the Four Seasons Hotel.  With 10,000 square feet of space, the gallery presents exhibitions of the highest quality including works on loan from museums and private collections, as well as works from our own holdings.  Visit Spanierman Gallery at : www.spanierman.com/ or : www.spaniermanmodern.com