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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Featured Artist of the Day: Francesca Danieli.

When you walk into our gallery from the stairway entrance and turn directly to your left, a cinderblock wall greets you. Mounted here for this exhibition is the work of the artist, Francesca Danielli. Her work in this show are photomontage pieces, which perfectly fits the theme of our current show, "Extended Realities: The Language of Photomontage".

The first piece of her work that we have is "Untitled [eye end-table]", made in 2005. It is an Archival pigment print. Her second piece is "Untitled [blistered couch]", also made in 2005, and this piece is also an Archival pigment print.

The point to both of her works in this show is that "Some see them as traps, others as prisons --- obviously the beautiful and expensive surroundings do not protect the occupants or make them people to be envied. Illness changes our perception of people. We have difficulty seeing anything but the sickness. It fills us with fear for ourselves. These images elevate the disease. Beautify it in a way....". (Artwork Identification, page 2.). Franscesca is an artist who challenges your perception of how we view the sick. It is quite common that most people tend to avoid or distance themselves from those with sickness, whether or not contagious, and she makes a valid statement that it is not always unavoidable, regardless of one's social status, or position in life.

"Francesca received a master's degree in fine arts in 2005. Thirty-two of her collages were collected and published by Nazraeli Press in a 2005 book called "Gamma Knife", which is the name of a neurosurgery. Her work was exhibited reecently at the University of Maryland, the 1708 Gallery in Richmond, the Maryland Federation of Art's Circle Gallery in Annapolis and the Courthouse Galleries in Portsmouth, Va.[.] Her prints are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and she has works in the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. She served on the accessions committee of the Baltimore Museum of Art for several years." (Artwork Identification, page 2.).