In my paintings I honor the landscape as itself and as a metaphor. Mountains become places of ascension, inwardness and grace. Desert as indifference. Anthropomorphic trees lightup in moonlight, reflected in water that has no boundaries but holds memory all the same. Untamed and wild landscape, in all its apathy, elicits a primal pull to enter it, to be joined with it, to know it intimately. Seeking the solace of empty places, I create intensely personal portraits of quiet, meditative spaces that encourage contemplation, reflection and investigation of self, sublimity and the divine.
– Danielle Winger –
Profile
| Born in Reno, Nevada, USA in 1986 Lives and works in La Fontaine, IN, USA |
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| 【Education】 | |
| 2015 | M.F.A, Painting, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA |
| 2010 | B.S., Textiles Merchandising and Design, Concentration in Apparel Design, Minor in Art, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA |
| 【Selected Solo Exhibitions】 | |
| 2024 | The Shape of Water (Seizan Gallery, Tokyo) Half the day is Night (Visions West Contemporary, Denver, USA) |
| 2023 | Deep calls to Deep (Indiana Wesleyan University, USA) |
| 2021 | Between Two Gardens (Red Arrow Gallery, Tennessee, USA) |
| 2020 | The Meadows, Mine. The Mountains, Mine. (Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, USA) |
| 【Selected Group Exhibitions】 | |
| 2025 | Call and Response, Red Arrow Gallery (Red Arrow Gallery, Tennessee, USA) EXPO CHICAGO (Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, Chicago, USA, SEIZAN Gallery Booth) Where Earth Meets Sky (König Galerie Bergson, Munich, Germany) |
| 2024 | ART TAIPEI (Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Taipei, SEIZAN Gallery Booth) Nature of the Mind (Galerie Bessaud, Paris, France) |
| 2023 | Momentary, 3 person exhibition (Red Arrow Gallery, Tennessee, USA) Art on a postcard (Hoxton Gallery, London, UK) |
| 2022 | Spring/Break Art Fair (3 person booth curated by Todd Kelly, NY, USA) Works on Paper 4 (Blue Shop Cottage, London, UK) Show Up (Nashville Parthenon in conjunction with Red Arrow Gallery, Tennessee, USA) |
| 2021 | Over the river and through the woods (Visions West Contemporary, Bozeman, USA) I like the West and the West likes me. (Visions West Contemporary, Denver, USA) High Desert High (Smoke the Moon Gallery, Santa Fe, USA) Mountain Standard Time (Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO and Bozeman, MT, USA) |
| 2020 | Into the Garden (Indianapolis Arts Center, Indianapolis, USA) Onward/Upward, 3 person virtual exhibition (Ghost Art Project, Omaha, USA) Small Works (James May Gallery, Artsy) ArtLink Regional Juried Exhibition (Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, USA) |
| 2019 | Summertime Sadness (James May Gallery, Online Exhibition by Invitation) |
| 2015 | Arts & Culture Alliance National Juried Exhibition of 2015 (Emporium Center, Tennessee, USA) Through The Fishbowl (Reece Museum, Tennessee, USA) |
| 2014 | Poetics of Memory, Curated by Vanessa Mayoraz (Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Tennessee, USA) Diverge (Reece Museum, Tennessee, USA) Dogwood Regional Juried Fine Arts Exhibit (Emporium Center, Tennessee, USA) |
| 【Publications】 | |
| 2023 | ArtMaze Mag, Issue 32-33, UK |
| 2021 | Colorado Homes Magazine, Cover, September Create! Magazine, “Portraits of Quiet Spaces by Danielle Winger” |
| 2020 | Beyond Words Literary Magazine Candyfloss Magazine |
| 2019 | Create! Magazine, “Landscape paintings inspired by Memory and Reflection by Danielle Winger” I Like Your Work Podcast Studio Visit Artist Friend of the Artist, Volume 9 |
| 【Invited Talks】 | |
| 2019 | Guest Lecture: Contemporary Approaches to Landscape , Hocking College, Nelsonville, OH |
| 【Awards】 | |
| 2019 | High Art Billboard Artist, Arts Council of Indianapolis (Through 2020) |
| 2013 | Johnson City, TN (Through 2015) |
| 2012 | Tuition Scholarship, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN |
| 【Grants】 | |
| 2013 | “Abstracts 7 Patterns: Studies in Acrylic & Polymers”, Research Grant Award, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN |
| 【Professional Memberships】 | |
| Presently | Contemporary Arts Society, Newfields, Indianapolis Museum of Art (2019-) |
| 2020 | Artist/Parent/Academic Peer group 2020 |
| 2013 | Graduate of Fine Arts Association, PRESIDENT (Through 2015) |
| 2012 | VICE PRESIDENT (Through 2013) |
