Born in Peekskill, NY, Dannielle Tegeder currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, and maintains a studio at The Elizabeth Foundation in Manhattan. She received a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase (1994), and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (1997). For the past fifteen years, her work has explored abstraction. While the core of her work is paintings and drawings, she has recently begun to include large-scale installation, sculptural objects, video, sound, and animation.
Since receiving her MFA in 1997 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dannielle’s work has been presented in over 100 gallery exhibitions, both nationally and internationally in Paris, Houston, Los Angeles, Berlin, Chicago, and New York. She has participated in numerous institution exhibitions including PS1/MOMA, The New Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Several of her drawings have recently been purchased as part of the Contemporary Drawing Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, and her work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and The Weatherspoon Museum of Art in Greensboro, NC.
ARTIST STATEMENT When asked to describe my work, I usually answer, “Abstract.” Unfortunately, I’ve found that answer is a great way to stop a conversation dead in its tracks. Something about abstraction seems to shut people down on a verbal level, which also explains why it is so hard to pin it down in writing (this statement not excepted).
Abstraction’s “dumbness” is probably why I’m drawn to pursue it; it is generous and capacious, able to absorb and then release a multitude of references. In my case, references as disparate as Chinese scholar’s stones, Japanese gardens, early American decorative traditions, or seventies design. I intend to conjure a world or a space for imagination and reverie in my work that may manifest itself in miniature form or room sized wall drawing/painting installations. My work is driven by a fascination with the life of form, the nature of creation and the will to decorate. I feel reassured to borrow freely from our gloriously diverse visual culture because, as George Steiner reminds us, “there are no more beginnings”; we are playing with all the cards. The true creation, the art, lies in the transcendence of those parts into an animate whole.
-Nicholas Nyland
Hanneline Rogeberg is a painter who works with the paradoxes of representation and language.
I have never been interested in works of visual art that I fully understand. Total comprehension means I stop looking. It is the mysterious quality of Hanneline Røgeberg’s work that attracts me, and where there is mystery, there is the possibility of genuine dialogue. Words cannot contain visual experience, but the back and forth of conversation can sometimes allow us to see more or to see again. Looking at any work of art establishes a relation between the spectator and the thing seen. In Hanneline’s painting, I recognise a quality that I myself am obsessed with — a sometimes agonising drive to break down conventional perceptual boundaries, to resist the categories we find ourselves inside. And because we share this desire, the two of us are, at the very least, artistic cousins, two people immersed in the pleasures and pains of continual ambiguity. – SIRI HUSTVEDT
She has shown in solo shows at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Henie-Onstad Kunst Center and most recently at Dortmund Bodega, Oslo, Norway this March, 2011, and in groups shows such as the MIT List Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a four person show the Richmond Museum, VA, in 2009. She has received an NEA grant in 1996, a Guggenheim fellowship in 1999, an Anonymous Was A Woman grant in 2003, and an OCA grant for a catalog publication in 2009. She is an associate professor of art at Rutgers University and has previously taught at University of Washington, Cooper Union, and Yale University. She was a visiting artist at Skowhegan in 2009.
Hanneline Røgeberg lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Oslo, Norway.
Victoria Haven lives and works in Seattle. She received her BFA from the University of Washington and her MFA from Goldsmiths College/University of London. She was the 2004 recipient of ‘The Stranger’ Genius Award as well as the Betty Bowen Memorial Award from the Seattle Art Museum. She also received a Pollock-Krasner Award in 1996 and in 2000. Her work has been exhibited at the Frye Art Museum and Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle; PDX Contemporary Art, Portland; the Austen Museum of Art, Texas; the Drawing Center, New York; and RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, among many others.
“I always think that abstraction is slipping away, that people just aren’t looking…Abstraction, to me, is that fuzzy place, that place between things, where a lot of conflict happens, where a lot of connection happens. Just looking at that building over there and going, okay, this line is in front of that one, but what if it weren’t? Those are really basic observations, but I would like to believe that they could help you open yourself up to ways of thinking that are not so black and white.”-The Stranger
Carolina Silva (b. 1975, Madrid, Spain) lives and works in Seattle. She uses installation, drawing, animation and film to contemplate the body and the passage of time through both figurative and abstract work. Her last show at Lawrimore Project entitled, Against Gravity, was part of a series of shows called Has Art? where each month, artists are paired with a writer and a page from Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés.
Carolina has had one-person shows in 2010: Galeria Travesia Cuatro, Madrid; La Conservera Center for Contemporary Art, Murcia, Spain (with Lili Duourie, Elena del Rivero, and Lily van der Stokker), (catalog); 2007: La Casa Encendida, Madrid. 2006: Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid; Art Space Tetra, Fukoa, Japan. 2004: Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco. 2003: Fish Tank Gallery, New York. 2002: Next Gallery, New York. Her work has also been seen in 2009: Explum, Puerto Lumbrera; Becas Generación 2008, Madrid; Doméstico09, Madrid, 2009. 2008: IVAM, Valencia; Museo de Pollença; Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca. 2007: Planes Futuros. Baluarte, Pamplona; Aquí y Ahora, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid; Destino Futuro, Jardín Botánico, Madrid. 2004: The Line Up. Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco.
