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Artist's Bio:
Marilyn Daneman was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1942. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, but transferred to The Dayton Art Institute to explore her growing interest in art. Then, in the early 1960s, she showed exceptional promise as a serious artist, and her work received the singular recognition of being selected for inclusion in the All-Ohio Show, an unusual honor rarely bestowed at the student level. Her work also was displayed at The Dayton Art Institute.
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Originally working in oils in the 1960s, Daneman found herself drawn to the flexibility and texture afforded by collage and switched to focus on that format in 1972. "Collage offers me more creative latitude as an artist than using just one medium," Daneman says. "The medium itself is important in my work. The materials I use are as involved in creating my (rhythmic) message as the subject matter." The choice of various materials in the process itself, she adds, creates an emotional and physical experience as it brings together texture and thought in a physical expression.
Daneman defines herself as a colorist, abstract expressionist and figurative painter influenced by the New York School of abstract expressionism.. She has worked with noted abstract expressionist Jay Milder, whom she identifies as the most influential factor in the development and evolution of her style. She identifies Jean-Michel Basquiat, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hoffman and Joan Mitchell as other important influences. |
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Daneman has worked quietly on her own for the past 35 years, allowing an inward-focused creative ferment to further evolve her work, while rearing a family in the Chicago area. She combines painting and drawing on various surfaces and layers them on top of each our so they flow, giving depth to her paintings. "I'm aware of several levels of activity, by merging drawing and painting, shapes and texture, I can achieve something that is very active," she says. "There is a layer that is obvious, at the same time a hidden activity below the surface." It involves you, draws you in and provides ever changing depth. It's an intense and highly personal link to the artist's emotional life." |
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