Danielle Orchard — À propos — Slash Paris

Danielle Orchard is an American artist who works, through the cubist style of her painting, to explore the modes of representation of women and the nude. Drawing her vocabulary from a visual lexicon strongly imbued with art history, she tests the formal narration of her stagings to invade the contemporary problematic of appearance and the modalities of desire.

Flesh, food, flowers and furniture intertwine in his paintings with the obsessive meticulousness of the assumed composition. Each frame calibrates its elements to manage its effects; erotic languor collides with the sharp angles of everyday banality, simple gestures are shrouded in mystery and a fixation that propels them into the allegorical horizon of a rearranged mythology.

As if they were blunt, the organs draw a cartography of suspended lives, where the very fact of being in the world collides and acts on the gaze of the spectator-voyeur. The model then escapes its status as a reproducible piece to embrace a singularity that frees it from any reification and assumes the share of risk necessary for any desire for emancipation.

Guillaume Benoit for Slash-Paris

Danielle Orchard (1985) received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Indiana University in 2009, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Cuny Hunter College in 2013 and studied in Florence, Italy. Former member of the Underdonk collective, a group of artists federated in 2013 around the desire to promote the New York district of Bunschwick and taking its name from Onderdonk street where members Chris Bertholf, Ashley Garrett, Aleta Lanier, Danielle Orchard, Elisa Soliven, Essye Klempner, Georgia Elrod, JJ Manford, Laura Frantz, Tryn Collins, Nicholas Cueva met regularly, Danielle Orchard notably exhibited at the Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, at the Geoffrey Young Gallery, at the Half Gallery as well as at the Perrotin Gallery.