 Tangerine Secret City with Underground Stations, 2000 mixed media on panel 48" x 48" |
 Green Headquarters, 2000 mixed media on canvas 48" x 60" |
 Yellow Escape Plan with Red Igloo, 2000 mixed media on panel 48" x 48" |
 Blue Diptych City with Flying Object, 2000 mixed media on panel 12" x 24" (two panels) |
My work consists mainly of brightly colored paintings based on underground blueprints, architectural plans, and technological drawings.
Our society's technological and architectural advancements both delight and disgust us. As vehicles of desire and creative thought, they perform necessary functions for habitation and development. Our societal structures and technologcial advances are equally capable of empowering and disabling us. We have nuclear weapons, biological terrorism, population overcrowding, and flight path congestion in every city, relying on beneficent safety measures to resist them.
As subjects, I use biotechnological illustration charts, underground and air transportation paths, diagrams of plumbing and heating systems, and computer based technological images. I then trasnform them with vivid colors through painting and drawing. Starting with a diagrammatic base, I draw parts dissected from my reference materiasl on paper or panel. Using mostly acrylic paint, I create pseudo-systems that are a base for my seemingly abstract paintings. Then with the help of drafting tools and other materials such as colored pencil, markers and gouache, I build layers of information. Throughout this trasnformation, I attempt to infuse my subject matter with a piercing beauty and a bit of humor.
I am influenced by the drawings of architects such as Paulo Solari, and the later work of Frank Lloyd Wright. My art is also informed by such diverse genres as the funky Utopian world found on the Jetsons cartoon series, among others and planned underground safe cities desgined during the Cold war. My color schemes, partly derived from popular American cultures, are inspired by minute observations of daily life, mundane things ...a dress in a store window, holiday decorations, and even the cover of Wired magazine.
The concept of beauty firmly grounded upon proportion, order, and color compels my art. The creative process enables me to understand the abstractions of human development and modern society's obsession with technology on my own terms.
Dannielle Tegeder
The Marie Walshe Sharpe Studios
443 Greenwich Street, 7th floor
New York, N.Y. 10013
Community phone: (212) 925-2669
email:DMTegeder@aol.com
118 First Place
Brooklyn, N.Y.11231
(718) 522-9095
Education
| 1997 | The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago Master of Fine Arts, concentration in painting and drawing |
| 1994 | State University of New York
at Purchase Bachelor of Fine Arts,Painting concentration With highest distinction (top 2%), Magna cum Laude |
| 1994 | The Amsterdamse Hogschhol Voor
De Kunsten, The Netherlands The Amsterdam School of Fine Arts, Holland |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2001 | The Jan Cicero Gallery, Undercurrents,
Chicago, IL
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| 1999 | Contemporary Arts Workshop,
Recent Drawings, Chicago, IL
ARC Gallery, New Work, Chicago, IL |
| 1996 | Fine Arts Gallery (two person show), Organic: Organization, Chicago, IL |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2002 | The New Museum, Out of Place,
curated by Anne Ellegood, New York, NY
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| 2002 | The Bronx Museum of Art, Artist
in the Martketplace Exhibition, Bronx, NY
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| 2000 | Silverstein Gallery, Growing
Into Space, New York, NY
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| 1998 | Visual Arts Gallery, Six
Choose Six, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
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| 1997 | The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago, M.F.A. Exhibition, Chicago, IL
Gallery 2, Atstuta, Chicago, IL Nippon Steel, Group Exhibition, Chicago, IL |
| 1996 | Evanston Art Center, Chicago
and Vicinity Exhibition,Evanston, IL
Silverstein Gallery, Anatomy and Intellect, New York, NY |
Selected Awards
| 2000 | The Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio
Fellowship, New York, NY
The Millay Colony for the Arts The Ragdale Foundation The Ucross Foundation The Illinois Special Projects Grant The Chicago Artist's Assistance Grant
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| 1997-1996 | The School of the Art Instutute
Scholarship Fund
The School of the Art Instutute Dean's Grant
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Publications
| NY Arts Magazine, Volume 6,
43, May 2001
New American Painting, Northeast Region, December 2000 The New York Contemporary Art Report, April/May, 2000 The Chicago Art Journal, Telos, 100-101, Spring 2000 The Chicago Reader, September 23, 1999, Review The Chicago Tribune, Critic's Choice, January 12, 1997 The Chicago Reader, January 9, 1997, Review
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