Moving Onwards

Hello friends,

A little news on my show in San Francisco:

My current show at Mollusk is coming down this week. Mollusk is a unique gallery space that has turned into an culty corner of contemporary art by Californian artists, carving a sweet niche in the art world. Other artists involved with Mollusk are Geoff McFetridge, Thomas Campbell, Alex Kopps, Kyle Field, and Nathaniel Russell. There are two more Mollusk locations, one in Brooklyn and another in Los Angeles.

The opening in April was such a fantastical evening (live performance by Rubies, and hors d'oeuvres by Miel) ... and now it's time for the work to move on to the next space... where will that be? It wants to travel and has long white wings, so if you have any ideas please be in touch. I tend to book a live act and make the opening a 'happening' not to be forgotten. Let's do this. I want to.

If you haven't had a chance to see it, the gallery has the exhibition online. Find the "line" that horizontally connects them all. Get horizontal and click on the 'art' link HERE .

Every piece is from a new series taken within the last year on my Rolleiflex, and the frames were designed and built by Adrian from wood salvaged from my childhood home in Santa Barbara.

I would love to hear any feedback or comments you might have...

Enjoy

Santa Barbara Portraits

Been taking portraits of several special women in my neighborhood. One is Chloe. She is pregnant. Adrian taught her how to walk when they were toddlers on the ranch. The other is Mariella. She is my sister-in-law. Both have such extreme beauty and specialness. Both are inbetween something. Becoming a mother. Becoming a woman.

Yummy

Yogurt Panna Cotta with Rhubarb Sauce and Pain d'Amandes

I shot food photographs for the lovely Ingrid Pankonin yesterday. Her private chef business is Miel Cooking and if you were at my opening at Mollusk you have already tried her magical creations. She cooks delicious food and I highly recommend hiring her pronto. She also makes mustards, jams, her own 'lillet' and other apéritifs. Have a party! Learn how to grow food and have her design your vegetable or kitchen garden.... she can do it all. She also just started a food blog. Yay Ingrid!

A clip from the opening last saturday at Mollusk

Hi-Res photos for Press & Press Release / INVISIBLE THREAD

Here is the press release for my show at Mollusk...and here are a few hi-res images for now (printable up to just 4"x4" or so).

Email me for any other info or if you just want to say that you are coming and can't wait.

Danielle

NEW BLOG / Art & Projects

I have a new blog. It's my art & projects blog. For now, this blogspot blog will stay active and feed into the new one to sort of temper the blog stew. Please email me feedback as to which one you prefer during this testing-the-waters phase.

This blogspot one has an extensive archive and I will keep it online, but I'm pretty stoked on my new blog so check it out. I will make it easy for you. blog blog blog. blog.

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My Next Show | COME!

Some words:

In her current show, Invisible Thread, Rubi confronts the variety of her cast of subjects head on through the imposition of technical and compositional parameters. The criteria are simple: all images in the group were shot on her favorite camera, a 1950, square format Rolleiflex and are all printed the same size; also, every image contains a strong horizontal line across the frame. Displayed, the images are justified according to their individual horizon line, rather than the top, bottom, or center of the frame The effect of these parameters simplifies and connects a seemingly disparate group of images, in effort to show their common provenance: Rubi's eye. Another notion that emerged from this specific undertaking is the significance of horizons in the way we process, regard, and experience the world. It is how we arrange our written language, it is how we show chronologies, it is what happens when two arms reach for each other, it is what infinity looks like.

Show opening is April 25th , 7-10pm , Mollusk SF (Rubies peforming , Miel cooking)

Find the Glow

Fire pit out on a ranch here in Marfa. Here you can breath well.

Marfa after Mexico

I have so many stories from my last chapter in Mexico, that I have to wait to post some nug photos because it will take some tiiiiiime and a circle around the sun before I can share those with you all. But let's skip ahead to the NOW. I am back in Marfa enjoying the sweeping lands and the folks. Here to work on "west Paris" (or little green roofed white adobe house) and finish the second half of the material for my upcoming show at Mollusk, "Invisible Thread". Here I will shoot desert scapes and feelings that are not coastal in any way. Time to tie it all together.