Launching Traywick Contemporary’s 2020 exhibition program in support
of the Feminist Art Coalition is Danielle Lawrence: Veils and Grids,
featuring new works by the Bay Area artist in her first solo show with
the gallery. Lawrence’s practice focuses on experimentation with
materiality and surface through a hybrid approach that incorporates
painting and sculpture. With her work, she questions the accepted
truths of traditional materials and categories while seeking to expand
the hierarchies around craft versus fine art. With an ongoing interest
in the painted shape, gesture or mark that moves beyond the two
dimensional plane, she reworks the traditional physicality of a
painting by literally deconstructing and putting back together each
piece. The physical deconstruction/construction of materials is a
metaphor for reworking and rethinking of other cultural norms such as
sexuality, gender, and class. Lawrence thinks of her pieces as visual
haikus – distilled, powerful moments that merge abstract language
and gestures with contemporary cultural realities of fluidity and
transformation. Lawrence points to the power of art, music and
literature of our time, as the connector between communities that can
force dialogue and an open exchange of ideas.
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