I combine the rigorous structure of weaving with the malleable properties of oil paint to produce tactile, visual, and associative abstractions that question the familiarity of either form. Freed from the rules of the loom, I extrude individual “threads” of oil paint that amass into illusory woven fields, entangled ridges, and corporeal forms that are seemingly pushed, pulled, gathered, and raised by unseen forces. These textured surfaces, formed by the slow accumulation of marks, produce incremental visual “events” that resist painting’s lean toward fixed, two-dimensional imagery.
My practice is informed by a modernist matrilineage: the bodily materiality of Eva Hesse’s constructions, Agnes Martin’s devotion to the grid as an infinite improvisational and expressionistic form, Ruth Asawa’s insistence on meaning in handwork, and Annie Albers' emphasis on the communicative power of tactility. Building on this legacy, I explore abstraction's ability to express embodied knowledge and experience. At their core, the paintings activate metaphorical meaning through visual and textural perception, foregrounding materiality and the experience of touch and presence in our increasingly digitized lives.
Bio:
Danielle Mysliwiec holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Hunter College. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Brintz+County (Palm Beach, Florida), Novella Gallery (New York, New York), Vox Populi Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), and Kent State University (Kent, Ohio).
Selected fairs and group exhibitions include The Peale Museum (Baltimore, MD), Untitled Art Fair, (Miami, Florida), Asya Geisberg Gallery (New York, New York), Good Naked Gallery (New York, New York), McKenzie Fine Art (New York, New York), Mixed Greens Gallery (New York, New York), Transmitter Gallery (Brooklyn, New York), Rockelmann & (Berlin, Germany), Heiner Contemporary (DC), and The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design (Asheville, North Carolina).
Mysliwiec’s paintings have been featured and reviewed in publications including The Brooklyn Rail, Maake Magazine, The New York Times, New American Paintings, Inertia, Art F City, The Washington Post, B’more Art and others. Mysliwiec has also been a contributor to the Brooklyn Rail. Awards include fully funded residencies to the Tides Institute & Museum, Long Meadow Art Residency, the Surf Point Foundation, and the Pollock Krasner Fellowship at The Vermont Studio Center, as well as grants from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities and Montgomery County Arts and Humanities Commission.
Mysliwiec is currently on the board of Interlude Artist Residency, a residency supporting parent artists. She is an Associate Professor of Art at American University .